On the first Pentagon Beat of the year: Megan Eckstein, deputy editor of USNI News, and Patrick Tucker, technology editor at Defense One, discuss the Navy’s purchase of a second destroyer from General Dynamics in 2019, and the Justice Department’s indictment of Chinese hackers.
Robert Bigman, founder of 2BSecure and former CIA Chief Information Security Officer, discusses the idea of “hack-backs” and why he believes that going on the offensive in cyberspace isn’t a good idea.
Adept hackers are masters of misdirection. When cyberattacks occur, digital breadcrumbs provide evidence of the malicious computer’s origin. However, these can be faked with modern hacker tools. In this environment, how can cybersecurity researchers know where the attack came from? In the heat of the moment, it might not be important to the response team. […]
