Clear and Present Danger: Cyberattacks, Hackers and the Increasing Threat to Information Security
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Earlier this year, Google disclosed that its network infrastructure had been compromised by a sophisticated cyberattack that resulted in the loss of sensitive intellectual property. Unfortunately, the incident was just the tip of an iceberg. Soon after Google's disclosure, U.S. investigators studying the incident told The Wall Street Journal that the prime suspects behind the attack may have been involved in attacks on more than 30 other companies. As Richard Clarke, former U.S. counterterrorism chief, put it at the RSA information security conference held earlier this year in San Francisco: "Every day we are being attacked. Every major company, [and] every major institution, [have] been penetrated."
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