Cybersecurity. Convenience.
Who is the enemy? league. Foreign governments may want a How do they do it?
A decade ago, you might have envisioned peek at plans for communications systems Some do it the easy way: steal a laptop with
a geek at MIT entertaining himself trying being developed at an engineering school confidential files. Better still, leave the lap-
to crack a Pentagon firewall just for the fun with a Department of Defense grant. top in place. Enormous amounts of data
of it. “The days of mischief are gone,” says There are system attacks that take over can fit on a thumb drive. Beyond the obvi-
Chris King, director of product marketing computers and create a botnet of zombie ous there are more devious ways:
at Palo Alto Networks. He estimates 70 to machines. These can harness enormous Others intercept data transmissions
80 percent of today’s bad guys are sophisti- amounts of computing power for a variety from unsecured wireless networks. During
cated criminals—including syndicates op- of nefarious purposes, including the distri- transmission to or from a laptop or smart
erating from Russia—and supported by a bution of viruses that destroy data. phone, unsecured data is vulnerable to a
growing industry that trades in stolen data. Very often the cybercriminal wants a social snoop listening in.
security or credit card number. Better yet, a Put the pieces together. If a cyber crimi-
What do they want? name, an address, an employment history, and nal acquires the password you use to log
Colleges and universities are a treasure trove any other information that can build a com- onto Facebook, then maybe that password
of data. On any given campus there are plete persona by which a crook can fraudulent- works with your bank account, too.
thousands, perhaps millions, of records for ly obtain credit or access deposit accounts. Phishing, as defined by Wikipedia, is
applicants, students, faculty and staff. Don’t The Open Security Foundation, a vol- masquerading as a trustworthy entity to
overlook former staffers, alumni, donors and unteer nonprofit that tracks data breaches, fraudulently acquire sensitive information
even patients. And, oh yes, small, medium, reports that more than 11 million records such as usernames, passwords and credit
large and even enormous research databases. stored at colleges and universities have been card details. Phishing often uses e-mail
An unethical researcher at a pharmaceu- compromised. Last April, administrators at or instant messaging from bogus sources
tical company may be scouring data from the University of California, Berkeley, dis- purporting to be legitimate. The phisher-
clinical trials being conducted at a universi- covered that hackers had accessed records man directs recipients to enter details at a
ty medical center. A competitive academic affecting nearly 160,000 individuals—in- fake website whose look and feel are almost
may want to publish findings before a col- cluding social security numbers. identical to an authentic one.
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