Nov 18, 2009

Doug Tygar on Computers' Vulnerabilities to Attacks

From the San Francisco Chronicle

McAfee warns of Cold War-style computer attack

By Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera

The threat of warfare spreading into the digital realm is no longer just a possibility, according to a McAfee report released Tuesday.

The Santa Clara computer security firm concluded that countries like Russia, China, France, Israel and the United States have the technological capabilities to coordinate state-to-state online attacks and are quietly building their computerized arsenals....

"There's considerable evidence that vulnerabilities exist," said UC Berkeley information management Professor Doug Tygar....

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