State-Sponsored CyberAttacks Expected To Rise

wiredmikey writes "According to a report released today, IT security professionals will see a rise in State-sponsored attacks, like the Stuxnet worm, that will build on concepts and techniques from the commercial hacker industry to create more powerful 'Advanced Persistent Threats.' The researchers also expect an increase in compromised mobile devices leading to data theft or loss as a result of lagging security measures, and that next year will bring the first major data breaches as a result of compromised devices. The biggest potential impact will be caused by the proliferation of sophisticated mobile devices interacting with corporate networks."

Re:A rise?

[Anarchduke]

Very analytical. However, the post you replied to never mentioned that he needed to know the previous condition of rainfall, only that he didn't need to know the previous condition of the river. Perhaps he thought that the previous baseline of rainfall you were referring to was, as you put it, "pretty basic stuff", and didn't need to be mentioned.

In terms of the actual article, I interpreted that MozeeToby [slashdot.org] was saying that just because one don't know current amount of government sponsored IT attacks doesn't mean you can't guess it will go up. Just like MozeeToby, I can safely assume it will only increase, once more and more countries create dedicated cyber-warfare groups.

As far as the history of rainfall (or cyber attacks) goes, it had never even sprinkled before 29 October 1969 [wikipedia.org].