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Cyber Exploitation

U.S. spy agencies to detail cyber-attacks from abroad: LA Times

On 12/6, Ken Dilanian reported for The LA Times on an upcoming U.S. intel community National Intelligence Estimate of “cyber-spying against American targets from abroad, including an attempt to calculate U.S. financial losses from hacker attacks based in China . . ..”  Moreover, Dilanian reports that the NIE will attempt to explain how large a role the Chinese government plays in cyberespionage.  The report is supposed to be coming out early next year.

Stewart Baker blogged about this for Skating on Stilts, finding the article’s claims of rapidly improving attribution notable.

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Cyber Exploitation

U.S. spy agencies to detail cyber-attacks from abroad: LA Times

On 12/6, Ken Dilanian reported for The LA Times on an upcoming U.S. intel community National Intelligence Estimate of “cyber-spying against American targets from abroad, including an attempt to calculate U.S. financial losses from hacker attacks based in China . . ..”  Moreover, Dilanian reports that the NIE will attempt to explain how large a role the Chinese government plays in cyberespionage.  The report is supposed to be coming out early next year.

Stewart Baker blogged about this for Skating on Stilts, finding the article’s claims of rapidly improving attribution notable.

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