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Fwd: [ISN] MI5 chief: Cyber spying 'relatively straightforward' to beat
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:53:51 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 "...'relatively straightforward' to block attempts to steal data." Right. The only way to get even close to block attempts to steal data from classified networks is to disconnect them from the freekin' Internet. Period. And then you have a different set of manageable problems. I guess that is why it is at epidemic levels -- this concept is just too hard for some bureaucrats to grasp. Somehow, I get the heebie-jeebies anymore when people from any government organization say they understand what is going on on the cyber crime forefront, unless I know them personally (and can vouch). Most of these blow-hards have no idea what is happening "on the ground". $.02, - - ferg - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> Date: Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:46 PM Subject: [ISN] MI5 chief: Cyber spying 'relatively straightforward' to beat To: isn () infosecnews org http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/17/mi5_cyber/ By Chris Williams The Register 17th September 2010 Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, has claimed the internet has made the threat of espionage by foreign countries higher than ever before, but insisted it is "relatively straightforward" to block attempts to steal data. "The overall likelihood of any particular entity being the subject of state espionage has probably never been higher, though paradoxically many of the vulnerabilities exploited both in cyber espionage and traditional espionage are relatively straightforward to plug if you are aware of them," he said. The common sense call is relevant to ongoing work by the year-old Office of Cyber Security in the Cabinet Office to improve basic information security across government and in businesses. MI5, officially known as the Security Service, is responsible for counter-espionage. Evans has previously written to the bosses of big British companies to warn them of the threat online, particularly from hackers with links to the Chinese intelligence services. Cyber security is a key issue for the ongoing Strategic Defence and Security Review, which is due to report next month. Following the first national Cyber Security Strategy last year, efforts to protect UK networks and data are expected to receive a large budget boost, against a background of cuts to other areas of defence and security. [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFMlwTzq1pz9mNUZTMRAs+yAKCClUE9FiaugtyMS78/CThFT/QmtgCgyTi5 02AtknNFvgi67gLdcGKP9Z8= =DFcq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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