Countries engaging in Cyber Cold War
Summary: Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War", amassing "cyber weapons", conducting espionage and testing networks in preparation for using the internet to conduct war, reports McAfee.
In particular, countries gearing up for cyber offensives are the US, Israel, Russia, China and France, says the report, which was compiled by former White House Homeland Security adviser Paul Kurtz and based on interviews with more than 20 experts in international relations, national security and internet security.
"We don't believe we've seen cases of cyber warfare," said Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research at McAfee. "Nations have been reluctant to use those capabilities because of the likelihood that [a big cyberattack] could do harm to their own country. The world is so interconnected these days."
For more, read "Report: Countries prepping for cyber war on CNET News.
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Block all the overseas countries
Only allow what traffic that should go across your
servers, otherwise you are setting your self up
for disaster.
There is no reason for an American company that
does business in America to be open to the world
for web/email/ftp/ssh/email.
There are several sites that have all of the
IP ranges to block. Plus, it eliminates
brute_force_attacks/spam/you name it.
What if you are in a foreign trade zone?
Open yourself to the world.
You must be the same idiot that thinks we should only do business with other American companies and that who else would work with a Japanese or Chinese or Korean or Thai or Mexican or Canadian or if you don't get my point by now, you never will.