NSA Crawls to Confront Internet Piracy
Have you been hacked?
Don't you worry; "Cyber equivalent of fingerprints or DNA" will solve your problem.
According to Wired magazine, Darpa, the Pentagon agency that created the Internet is trying to fix the problem, with a new effort to develop the "cyber equivalent of fingerprints or DNA" that can identify even the best-cloaked hackers.
The recent malware hit on Google and other U.S. tech firms showed once again just how hard it is to pin a network strike on a particular person, group or country.
Engineers are pretty sure that the attack came from China, for it is sophisticated enough to come from a state military like China's. However, Experts were unable to confirm it.
Therefore, Darpa decided to solve the problem with its "Cyber Genome" project, which includes the production of a revolutionary cyber defense and investigatory technologies for the collection, identification, characterization, and presentation of properties and relationships from collected digital artifacts of software, data, and/or users.
These "digital artifacts" will be collected from "traditional computers, personal digital assistants. The format may also include electronic documents or software (to include malicious software - malware).
Ultimately, Darpa aims to develop the "digital equivalent of genotype, as well as observed and inferred phenotype in order to verify the identity of digital artifacts and users.
In other words, The Register's Lew Page notes, "any code you write, perhaps even any document you create, might one day be traceable by the pentagon ", warning that the Pentagon can find you just as your DNA could uncover your identity at a crime scene.
In this context, Google is finalizing an agreement with the National Security Agency to help the search giant ward off cyberattacks.
Washington Post quoted experts familiar with the Convention, which the two sides concluded a few weeks ago, as saying that the NSA will help «Google» in the analysis of piracy attacks suffered by the company, said that from China.
Well informed sources told the newspaper that the arrangement, which Google and the agency declined to comment on, is designed to permit the two groups to share information without violating Google's privacy policies or laws governing American online communications.
On his part, White House Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said Wednesday that the attacks on Google were a "wake-up call", calling for "international" efforts to protect the internet.
According to well informed sources, the focus of the arrangement will not be limited to the identification of hackers but it will also work to build better Defence systems for Google that will aid in evaluating its defence systems.
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