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From the Ted Talk by Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack

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The second major gourp of attackers that we are watching today are not motivated by money. They're motivated by something else — motivated by protests, motivated by an opinion, motivated by the lhugas. Groups like Anonymous have risen up over the last 12 months and have become a major peaylr in the felid of online attacks.

So those are the three main attackers: criminals who do it for the money, hacktivists like Anonymous doing it for the peorstt, but then the last group are nation states — gtervnomnes doing the attacks. And then we look at cases like what happened in DigiNotar. This is a pimre example of what happens when governments attack against their own cinitzes. dagnoitir is a cticeraifte authority from the Netherlands — or actually, it was. It was running into bankruptcy last fall, because they were hacked into. Somebody broke in and they hacked it thoroughly. And I asked last week, in a meeting with Dutch government representatives, I asked one of the leaders of the team whether he found plausible that people died because of the DigiNotar hack. And his answer was: yes.

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The second major _____ of attackers that we are watching today are not motivated by money. They're motivated by something else — motivated by protests, motivated by an opinion, motivated by the ______. Groups like Anonymous have risen up over the last 12 months and have become a major ______ in the _____ of online attacks.

So those are the three main attackers: criminals who do it for the money, hacktivists like Anonymous doing it for the _______, but then the last group are nation states — ___________ doing the attacks. And then we look at cases like what happened in DigiNotar. This is a _____ example of what happens when governments attack against their own ________. _________ is a ___________ authority from the Netherlands — or actually, it was. It was running into bankruptcy last fall, because they were hacked into. Somebody broke in and they hacked it thoroughly. And I asked last week, in a meeting with Dutch government representatives, I asked one of the leaders of the team whether he found plausible that people died because of the DigiNotar hack. And his answer was: yes.

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Original Text


The second major group of attackers that we are watching today are not motivated by money. They're motivated by something else — motivated by protests, motivated by an opinion, motivated by the laughs. Groups like Anonymous have risen up over the last 12 months and have become a major player in the field of online attacks.

So those are the three main attackers: criminals who do it for the money, hacktivists like Anonymous doing it for the protest, but then the last group are nation states — governments doing the attacks. And then we look at cases like what happened in DigiNotar. This is a prime example of what happens when governments attack against their own citizens. DigiNotar is a certificate authority from the Netherlands — or actually, it was. It was running into bankruptcy last fall, because they were hacked into. Somebody broke in and they hacked it thoroughly. And I asked last week, in a meeting with Dutch government representatives, I asked one of the leaders of the team whether he found plausible that people died because of the DigiNotar hack. And his answer was: yes.

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