During the past year the FBI has changed its tactics in conducting cyber operations from a more passive approach that entails the surveillance of intruders inside of networks being attacked to a more active approach that aims to disrupt these attacks, an agency official told Congress. Cyber operations used to entail observing adversaries collecting information on networks and trying to understand their intentions while rarely trying to “disrupt them as we might in a counter-terrorism case,” Richard McFeely, executive assistant…
FBI, Industry Fighting Back Against Cyber Attackers, Agency Official Says
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