New Threat Environment For Cyberattacks

Government-directed cyberoperations have already caused material damage, and not just to the Iranian nuclear-enrichment centrifuges hit by the Stuxnet worm in 2010. Under continuous attack from cyberespionage or cybernetwork exploitation (CNE), much of it originating in China but known by the diplomatic euphemism of the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), the U.S. has been ...