Cybersecurity in the News
It’s been in the news that after two large cyberattacks against 2 Australian companies the government is:
- Contemplating a law to prevent paying ransomware payments
- Creating a team to ‘hack the hackers’
The problem with the former solution is that it will hurts businesses more than hackers. The time to outlaw payments for ransomware has long passed in my opinion. It doesn’t appear to offer a solution really or it doesn’t answer the real problem which is that there a lack of push or support for shoring defenses that would lower the success of these attacks.
The second outcome I have less of an opinion on. Though I will say that active countermeasures (similar to this idea) has been a idea in cyber for years.
Dark Reading has more to say on the latter than I.
I just think this geopolitically is something to watch. I’m also curious to see how cybercriminals might respond to both proposed actions.
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