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How did cyberspace become today’s battlefield?
Global superpowers strike this way as an alternative to military maneuvers or economic sanctions and as a response to such actions, said Ed Parsons, executive vice president of consulting for F-Secure, a cyber security firm based in Helsinki, Finland. For a country like Russia, aggression in cyberspace offers the opportunity to overcome the power imbalance encountered in traditional warfare domains, while offering advantages such as power projection and plausible deniability, Parsons said.
Researchers say neglect of these security vulnerabilities during the Trump administration has left the country even more exposed. The unique concern of today, is not that this activity is ongoing – it has been since the first two towns were created – but rather that the U.S. is more vulnerable to this type of activity than it has been in the past, Rustici said.
How Russian spy games moved online: Massive breach shows how espionage is carried out in the 21st century Mike Snider and Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY
US cyber attack: Grave risk for private sector, infrastructure, federal government
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Forget KGB agents Russian intelligence officers masquerading as ordinary Americans to slip inside government agencies and steal national security secrets like in television’s “The Americans.”
The massive cyber assault on the U.S. government and private companies perpetrated through networked computer systems is what 21st century espionage most commonly looks like. And these kinds of confrontations on a digital battlefield, cybersecurity researchers say, are our new normal.