Hacktivists Have the Upper Hand in an Environment Where Most Attacks Go Unreported
IT Connection by Amy Larsen DeCarloSummary Bullets: · Anonymous’ attack on UK government sites in protest of efforts to extradite WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to Sweden mirror the continued trend of dogmatically driven cyber attacks. · Troubling statistics point to real reticence on the part of the attacked organizations to prosecute breaches, with DDoS vendor Arbor Networks publishing figures which reveal that just 26% of all distributed denial of service attacks are actually reported. The summer of 2012 has been a season of ‘hacktivist’ discontent. A spate of recent politically