US Government Taking Cyber Security Seriously – AT LAST!!
Seriously enough hey have named one of the world’s best hackers, Jeff Moss, aka “Dark Tangent” as an adviser to the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber-terrorism task force to battle his own people. He is responsible for the creation of one of the biggest and baddest hacker groups the world over who flock year after year to Arizona to discuss the world’s fate as they continue to create malware and other online threats. He is seen as a genius yet he might be in trouble with his old buddies for turning his head towards the government and swearing to help protect it from attacks is quite new. hackers rarely make themselves known though some of them have been caught, the ones we encounter each and everyday as we surf the net remain anonymous to us.
The US has a very much weak cyber-security system as can be seen with cases as recent as the lurking virus that was not only undetected at first, but unknown to cyber-security experts that infected the computers and network of the US Marshals and other law enforcement agencies. They emphasized that the virus was out of their classified network yet it being unknown, how the hell could they have knwon it wasn’t already in there?
April 07 2009 06:58 am | Information