They are currently recruiting many White Hat (Ethical) Hackers to sit in front of banks of monitors to attempt to catch other countries from attacking US resources.
From what I understand so far (from many sources) is that the plan is to launch a full scale counter attack across the internet if necessary. This type of activity has a huge potential of many internet outages along with routing issues.
I will not form an opinion on this action as of yet since I'm not fully aware of the exact plan and impact on preventing someone from another country from getting into the US resources. You can read more HERE
On another note: As I monitor the boards, I heard of the death this morning of a 31 year old IT professional. He was also a major contributor to many of the security boards. Someone posted the obituary to the board.
Never do this as this post included detailed information about his family, real name, place of employment and where he was from. This type of information has the potential of giving someone more than enough information to perform identity theft within the next few days.
Please Never post that type of information about anyone (dead or alive) as this can hurt the families in more ways than you can imagine.
When setting up an account refrain from using mother's maiden name or pets names... In those fields where required. Make something up that you will remember. Better to be safer than sorry.
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