'Military-run cyber attacks real future threat'
In future military conflicts there will be cyber military attacks, making the introduction of IT military units and standards a necessity, predicts security software mogul Eugene Kaspersky. Kids, teenagers and cyber vandals who used to be naughty on the w... moreIn future military conflicts there will be cyber military attacks, making the introduction of IT military units and standards a necessity, predicts security software mogul Eugene Kaspersky. Kids, teenagers and cyber vandals who used to be naughty on the web, staging hack attacks and writing viruses just for fun and to prove themselves, are now turning into cyber-criminals, driven by "unfortunately quite a big" profit, says the king of anti-virus software. Kaspersky revealed to RT that there is another type of hacker behind cyber-attacks, the so-called "hacktivists". They are not motivated by money or profit per se. "Most of them do it like in protest," Kaspersky said. "We are closely watching the cyber-crime world though, keeping those guys at a proper distance," he assures.
Hackers fueled by ideology are potentially more dangerous than those that are after money, because as they grow more experienced they set new aims for themselves and that is where they can join cyber-terrorism, designing and managing cyber-t... less
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