Nato trying to keep ahead of espionage and other security threats
Looks like us lowly private home computer users aren’t the only ones who can fall victim to Trojan horses. Even Nato officials have been targeted by miscreants who first compile a social profile of their victim, learning all they can about the dupe, then send them bogus email that looks as if it’s from a (trusted) friend or relative. Although Nato policy prohibits using the World Wide Web for transmitting classified ("secret") material, it has happened, even to senior officers, that they’ve neglected to transmit only internally (via secure intranet).
When I read Frank Gardner’s piece in the BBC News, "Nato's cyber defence warriors", I learned that within Nato’s operational headquarters in Belgium, resides the Incident Management Section, where military analysts are hard at work trying to staunch clandestine attacks. While naturally some Nato cyber procedures are hush-hush, cyber espionage is known to be on the rise and Nato operations include sensors deployed at various sites in Nato member countries. While they won’t identify where cyber threat information originates, they will say that it does get processed to the headquarters center, where the scope and/or validity of potential threats are analyzed.
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