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America is within the thick of a protracted battle, and it has nothing to do with the Middle East. Call it the War on Cyberterror. The nation's battle to secure its electronic borders began with the Marsh Commission, established by President Clinton in 1996 after the Oklahoma City bombing of a federal workplace building. Thankfully, there was no electro-catastrophe. But fashionable mayhem has two faces: swift sneak attack and gradual-gathering chaos. We might have dodged the pc equivalent of 9/11, however we're becoming mired in a digital Mogadishu. The threat is not solely from rogue nations and stateless terrorists bent on storming the citadels of energy. ID thieves is attacking the populace wholesale. The nation's cyberdefenses need a major rethink. 1. Stamp out spam. Just after the Can-Spam Act handed in December, a whopping three % of spammers feigned compliance. That figure is now right down to 1 p.c, and spam constitutes two-thirds of all electronic mail. |
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