Re: fog of cyberwar

[<Toralv_Dirro () McAfee com>]

> 3. Why are people treating targeted attacks as a new threat model?
> Their
> threat models are just old.

It's certainly nothing new, but it's the first time that a global player stepped up the plate and admitted their were a 
victim. That's why it suddenly is big news. That, and that a number of big companies were hit by the same attack.

Usually it's only the security vendors and federal organisations that are warning that such attacks are going on


> Oh yeah, and this is espionage, not cyber war. Computers are just new
> tools/weapons for an old motive.
> Espionage unlike cyber crime and cyber war is well established in law
> and diplomacy both. Security experts should not spread fear, and they
> definitely shouldn't be the ones people look to for answers on this.

Fully agree, but who was talking about cyber war?

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