Wednesday 17 February 2016

The Hubris of Hacking the FBI

NEWS ANALYSIS: Hackers who have the audacity to taunt American law enforcement should beware that the long arm of justice will find them—and fast.

The days of hacking with impunity, without any consequences or risk of penalty, may one day soon come to an end. A case in point is the rapid apprehension of an alleged suspect in the hacker attack against the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last week. Less than a week after hackers boasted to the media about breaching government security at least one of the alleged perpetrators is now in custody.According to Fox News, British officials arrested a 16-year-old male suspect in England on Feb. 12. That means that less than a week from the time the hackers boasted of breaching U.S. government security, that same government, working with its partners in the United Kingdom, was able to identity, locate and apprehend the attackers and has made at least one arrest. For the full article click here 



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