http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500187 By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek August 3, 2010 "Nuke 'em." That's the surprising -- albeit paraphrased -- finding of a recent survey conducted by Sophos, asking information security aficionados for their perspective on so-called cyberwarfare, and whether or not they think nation states have a right to spy on or attack each other online. The survey results were detailed by Sophos Tuesday in a report outlining information security trends for the first half of 2010. Interestingly, nearly two-thirds of the more than 1,000 people surveyed -- visitors to the Sophos website, all -- think that government-backed online spying, hacking, or surreptitious malware installs are acceptable. In addition, 49% of respondents think that "crippling denial of service attacks against another country's communication or financial websites" is okay during wartime, and 7% think it's acceptable during peacetime, too. Furthermore, 9% say their country should be able to hack into foreign companies and spy -- for economic advantage -- during peacetime, jumping to 32% during wartime. [...] -- Visit InfoSec News! http://www.infosecnews.org/Received on Wed Aug 04 2010 - 00:32:47 PDT
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