South Korea is seeking the help of China over a cyber-attack on its nuclear power network after the IP address of a suspected hacker was traced to a north-eastern Chinese city.
The attacks reached their climax in late April this year, when news broke over a cyber-intrusion into the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which resulted to the theft of personal and sensitive data of more than 20 million U.S. government employees, including social security numbers, employment, criminal and financial histories, and possibly even fingerprint data.
As I watch in dull horror, the machine returns to the Dell screen and proceeds to repeat the sequence in an infinite loop, over and over, the cyber equivalent of an incurable stutter.
Two groups of women are ganging up on each other in a cyber war over the right to experience birth in a joyful way versus the screaming and hair-pulling, 90% medicated mess we normally associate with the event, and everything in between.
Dave Aitel's proposal over at The Hill for "a cyber investigatory setup funded by private industry" to react to hacks into the American government may not be a good idea, per se, but who can afford that kind of cost-benefit analysis when we're already in the throes of de-facto high-seas Internet warfare?
(Er, you're watching "The Bachelorette" for role models? That's your problem right there!) But Chris proved that there are men out there who don't buy into the whole double standard crap: "I would take you as a role model for my kids over anybody who would be a cyber bully and spew that kind of hate.
But I'm not any more likely to be won over by cyber views I disagree with than I would be in person.
Tensions over currency policy were at the forefront during summits of the G20 and IMF.Google had a spat with China over censorship and a cyber-attack on its website there, causing it to redirect its Chinese internet searches through Hong Kong.
According to some, exaggerating fears over a possible cyber-terrorist attack is part of that attempt to exert control over the internet.
