Wanted: An International Cyber Security Law
There is an increasing amount of government backed international hacking with the aim to steal government and commercial secrets. And this is often done using DNS attacks/hacks. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a central part of the Internet, providing a way to match names, such as a website that you are looking for, to the numbers that are the address for the website.
Anything connected to the Internet - laptops, tablets, mobile phones, websites - has an Internet Protocol (IP) address that is made up of numbers. So far this attack has been limited to specific areas but is aimed to undermine Internet trust as the stability of DNS systems drives the global economics.
The reason the DNS is attacked/hacked is because it is a global address book that changes Internet names into IP addresses that computers recognise and these can be used to invade systems and then hackers can steal confidential data and monitor and disrupt communications. This can easily cause problems for any organisation be it commercial, government or military.
These attacks seem to be clearly focused on stealing private and secret information to gain access to particular government and commercial systems and seems to be part of a government spy activity.
There have also been DDoS, which are Distributed Denial of Service attacks such as one that hit Ecuador after the arrest of Julian Assange. This attack took down a number of commercial banking and government websites.
These types of attack are often being sponsored by governments and are similar to state run piracy or privateering, which is used so that governments can claim that the crime is committed by hacker pirates and not a government organisations.
Similar to the Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law of April 1856, which was aimed to abolish privateering and was signed by 55 countries, we now need a similar agreement on cyberteering.
By Alfred Rolington. CEO and c-founder of Cyber security Intelligence
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