Seeking Address: Why Cyber Attacks Are So Difficult to Trace Back to Hackers
Saturday, June 11, 2011 - 07:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Cyber attacks may not be a new phenomenon but the recent successes scored against high-profile targets including CitiGroup , Google , RSA and government contractors such as Lockheed Martin underscore the targets' current failure to block security threats enabled by the Internet. Malicious hackers use the very same technology that enables online banking, entertainment and myriad other communication services to attack these very applications, steal user data, and then cover their own tracks. [More]