Hackers winning security war

The "dark side" is winning on many fronts, not just cyberspace. We are in for a rough ride people.
 
WTF is defense companies doing on the net anyway? Get the **** off, you don't belong here.
 
The problem is that there is good money to be made on the dark side of hacking. Youngsters stand to make money they wouldn't be able to get legally - and they do so from the comfort of their own rooms. This is especially lucrative for those living in dysfunctional societies unable to find legal employment. The world economy is failing fast. The reality that it will never offer anything good for the majority has become clear. It's like the French Revolution in cyberspace.
 
Cyberspace should not be governed by the same rules as "geospace" where in many cases colonialists decided where the artificial borders will be and people were divided up into "countries" (becoming "citizens" of such a country) whether they agreed or not. Look at the mess in Afghanistan and Pakistan where a strong nation that existed for centuries - the Pashtun - were cut in half by a artificial border that no-one in the area cares about. The West don't get it and they want cyberspace to be run by the same rules. SOPA is proof of this. Cyberspace should be run differently with no national borders and political interference. The harder those running countries want to impose their old ways and powers on cyberspace the harder cybercitizens will and must kick back. That is the good fight. The problem now is that criminal hacking is confusing the matter, handing power to the nation states who wants to control cyberspace like they do "geospace'.
 
If somebody takes confidential data that belongs to you or just view it without authorization - That is a crime. And that is all 'hacking' as the term is used for internet security breaches. BeVonk!'s argument is valid though.

I don't see a good fight here considering that the security of the net directly impact my personal freedom whether it be by criminals or law enforcement, as well as my money which is all on digital record. The only way to have something good is to allow it to be. These cyber criminals are doing what amounts to the same thing as what happened during power outages a while back at a train station here in SA. The commuters could not get where they were going, because the train was standing still so they torched the train. Now they could romanticize it by saying that they were striking back at the system because they could not afford cars, but in reality they were just incredibly stupid. They made life worse for themselves and a lot of others. The net is so ubiquitous that if you mess with it then you are messing with your own comfort. Simple as that. You do not take a dump in your own back yard. It's time these kids take their heads out of their behinds.
 
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The sad reality for me (yet again) is ...

There are two geek geniuses ...

One goes to the right college, gets a lucky break, abandons studies, and becomes a billionaire.

The other one doesn't get the right opportunities and sits without work.

The one is a hero and have movies made and books written about him.

The other one is hunted by the State and called a criminal.

One is supposedly "good" and the other "bad".

Society worships the one and despises the other.

Sad indeed.
 
It's going to get way way way worse, we're at the brink of business losing compete control of the sytems they supposed to keep safe.

Employees are using personal devices more often for business purposes, these devices "need" access through the corporate firewall and present numerous new attack vectors against the company, even if they don't directly breach the firewall they present a vector through social engineering.

I suspect that we're going to get to the point where even the employees are outside the firewall and all are treated as a threat. ie. the security perimiter is not at the internet gateway, but inside the data-centre. Symantec has been spending plenty of time trying to secure the desktop with access controls and the like, but this is meaningless if the user can access email on an iPad.

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All our critical systems and databases are inside dmzs with IPS active inside the dmzs as well...
 
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