Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of IT pros believe their organizations will be the target of a cyberattack in the next six months, and three out of five (61 percent) say the attack will come from hactivists. That was one of the findings in cybersecurity firm Bit9’s annual security survey released last week. What’s surprising about the survey is the concern given to hacktivist attacks, said Bit9 CTO Harry Sverdlove — “even though Anonymous and hacktivist-type attacks represent a minority of actual attacks.” Moreover, when the survey’s questions began to get more specific, a different set of worries began to emerge.
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What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Hactivists?
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. April 30, 2012 06:00 AMNearly two-thirds (64 percent) of IT pros believe their organizations will be the target of a cyberattack in the next six months, and three out of five (61 percent) say the attack will come from hactivists. That was one of the findings in cybersecurity firm Bit9’s annual security survey released last week. What’s surprising about the survey is the concern given to hacktivist attacks, said Bit9 CTO Harry Sverdlove — “even though Anonymous and hacktivist-type attacks represent a minority of actual attacks.” Moreover, when the survey’s questions began to get more specific, a different set of worries began to emerge.