Brill & Smolanoff on Hacking Back against Cyberterrorists

Alan E. Brill (Texas A&M University School of Law; Kroll Cyber Security & Investigations) & Jason Smolanoff (Kroll Cybersecurity & Investigations) have posted Hacking Back Against Cyberterrorists: Could You? Should You? (Defense Against Terrorism Review, Vol. 9) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Cyberterrorists have become adept at using cybertools to modify or deface websites, steal information, and use social media. It is also expected that they will increasingly use the tools and techniques developed and used by cybercriminals, which are widely available. Add to this the nation-state-level tools released by sources like Wikileaks, and it becomes obvious that cyberterrorists are gaining increasingly sophisticated and dangerous weaponry. When an organization – whether that organization is part of a nation’s critical infrastructure or not, and whether that organization is part of a nation’s public or private sector, is attacked, a…

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