Cyber-War Is Evolving Fast

By Chris Wood, Casey Extraordinary Technology A new war is being waged – a war that is not fought with guns, missiles, or human soldiers, but with code in cyberspace, using computers and the Internet. It’s a war on all fronts – by governments against governments, governments against corporations, organized crime and insiders against both, and even individuals against other individuals (which is more often dubbed cybercrime, but that’s not a necessary distinction for our purposes). The point is that this war is pervasive, and we are all vulnerable to attack. About three years ago, Heartland Payment Systems discovered that hackers had penetrated their systems for a period “longer than weeks” in late 2008, and were eavesdropping on the . . . → Read More: Cyber-War Is Evolving Fast