Advanced Persistent Threat Hacking

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Introduction

You didn’t realize it, but when you decided to use the Internet, a computer, that new cell phone, even Facebook and Twitter, you joined a war. Whether you know it or not, this is war and it’s making us all soldiers. Some of us are peasants with pitchforks, and others are secret agents with sniper rifles and atom bombs.

In the past, when a bank had to account for security, they only had to worry about physical threats and tangible people. Nowadays, American banks are being attacked by intruders from countries with unfamiliar names who utilize attacks that exist only digitally, in electricity, transistors, 1’s and 0’s. Businesses as old as dirt have to deal with twenty-first century invisible, ethereal, and complicated threats. ...