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A Computer Security Start-Up Turns the Tables on Hackers

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Dissent

Nicole Perlroth reports:

Standing before a crowded room of entrepreneurs and investors at a conference in San Francisco last summer, former Vice President Al Gore described how climate change could be contained, possibly even reversed.

Next to take the stage was Kevin Mandia, the founder of Mandiant, a security company acquired by another security company called FireEye, who said nothing could be done to stop hackers from conducting digital attacks.

The juxtaposition did not sit well with Oren Falkowitz, a former analyst at the National Security Agency. “I thought, ‘Really? We can solve global warming but we can’t stop cyberattacks?’” Mr. Falkowitz recalled. He didn’t buy it.

For the last two years, Mr. Falkowitz’s start-up, Area 1 Security, has been trying to persuade the owners and operators of computer servers that have been compromised by state spies, criminals and hacktivists to allow the company to tap into those servers to monitor the attackers’ activities.

Read more on the New York Times.


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1 thought on “A Computer Security Start-Up Turns the Tables on Hackers”

  1. Billy Rubin says:
    June 15, 2016 at 6:17 am

    After Al Gore’s speech, he left the area driving in his Prius.
    Not likely.

    >>The juxtaposition did not sit well with Oren Falkowitz, a former analyst at the National Security Agency. “I thought, ‘Really? We can solve global warming but we can’t stop cyberattacks?’” Mr. Falkowitz recalled. He didn’t buy it.

    This illustrates the death of critical thinking. Global warming (a myth) can be fixed by someone who wishes to profit immensely from people fearing the myth.

    Beware of those who seek to prescribe a world for you that they themselves will never live in.

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