The FBI Is Investigating Whether US Banks Are Launching Cyberattacks Of Their Own

Minimalist · Dec 31, 2014

US banks may have embarked upon a hacking campaign of their own, allegedly disabling servers used by Iran in a series of 2012 cyberattacks that lasted through to 2013.
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/fbi-investigates-us-bank-hacks-2014-12

Minimalist · Dec 31, 2014

Report: JPMorgan Mulled Retaliatory Hacks Against Foreign Cyberattackers

The private sector appears to be fed up with reluctant government responses and has begun to search for new ways to counterattack, according to a report in Bloomberg News. “It’s kind of a Wild West right now,” Rep. Michael McCall, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told the news outlet, adding that it’s possible a number of companies are striking back “without getting permission. …They’re very frustrated.”
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http://www.ibtimes.com/report-jpmor...hacks-against-foreign-cyberattackers-1770944?

Minimalist · Jan 8, 2015

5 reasons not to “hack back”

Are hacking victims “hacking back”? That question was recently posed in headlines like this one from Bloomberg: FBI Investigating Whether Companies Are Engaged in Revenge Hacking. The Marketplace reporter, Ben Johnson, speculated that 2015 might be the year of “hacking back” when he asked me about revenge hacking. As I told Ben, there are several good reasons not to engage in hacking back, tempting though it may be to do so; I will enumerate those reasons after some background on this strategy and its place within cybersecurity.
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http://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/01/07/5-reasons-not-to-hack-back/

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