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The cyber whodunnit and the global blame game
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 21/12/2017
» The US government has officially attributed to North Korea the WannaCry ransomware attack, which encrypted hundreds of thousands of computer drives around the world in May, 2017. And yet as with a series of other highly public cyberattack attributions, little evidence for the claim was made public. It's time for the cybersecurity world to follow the advice of the Rand Corporation and set up an unbiased international consortium that would seek to attribute attacks based on a common set of rules.
Sony pays the price
News, Published on 22/12/2014
» Culture has collided once again with reality over the Hollywood movie <i>The Interview</i>. This ill-considered film has become a major international incident, as well as a controversial censorship lesson. US President Barack Obama and the government of North Korea are at the centre of the dispute. It now involves an early shot in what experts call cyberwar, and the biggest exposure ever of corporate secrets.