Why Isn’t U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure Good Enough?

Cyberattacks around the world, and especially in the U.S., have been on the rise. What can we do to combat it?

Cyberattacks seem to be really having a moment. Take the US, for example: the FBI has reported 4,000 attacks a DAY since the COVID pandemic began, and there’s no sign of things slowing down. But how exactly did we get to this point, and how can cybersecurity help us get out of this mess?

The infrastructure that we use every single day, in our houses, in our cars, in our workplaces, and generally in the country as a whole, is full of computing systems. Anything that prevents us from getting things done, or in some way makes that computing infrastructure create a negative event, we could consider that to be a threat.

The need for protection against cyber attacks really came into focus with STUXNET, the world’s first digital weapon. In 2010, it was found targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities, and in the process, proving that cyberattacks could have devastating consequences beyond the digital realm.

Computers today are more complex than ever, as are the types of threats they face. The more we ask our computers to do—open an email, visit a webpage, join a network—the more potential points of attack emerge.

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[XoXitsSaruhh]

The cybersecurity fight isn't ever going to end. Every system we make to defend our networks is eventually broken or circumvented by hackers.

[ReclusiveEagle]

Microsoft: "Windows 11!"
US Gov: *Running Windows 98/XP* "We'll just create an AI neural network that needs to somehow be butchered onto 16/32bit systems"

[MrBrelindm]

As an electronics technician in the Navy in the 80s, we regularly hacked communications satellites from public pay phones to make free long distance calls to our families!

[Zonker]

Steve Jobs was along for the ride... Steve Wozniak was the phreak.

[AranakAsulis]

Great news for me: I just graduated with my cyber degree a week ago.

[quanny]

I think what I didn't like in this vid was that it spoke of patching like something to look down on as if you did something wrong. The reality is that patching is an intrinsic part of software security - there will NEVER be a 100% secure piece of software. You might have safe code today, but 5 years from now, someone could break your software through new technology. That is why continuous patching is such an essential part of securing a system, and not something to be embarrassed about like this video claims.

[DaPanda]

People don't proactively think about their own security, and think about corporate security even less while they're at their own jobs. Security starts with the individual.

[jim]

Security has a lot of dimensions. There are tensions between authentication technologies (like passwords) and usability (make it 10 characters, upper and lower case, punctuation, don't write anything down, squeal like a pig). Between costs of design and manufacturing and thinking things through enough to build security in. Between security professionals attitude that no one else can possibly understand security and system users desire to be able to actually get work done with their systems. This video is a great start toward understanding that there is a problem or many problems.

[Jonathan-ubwi]

Any cyber security jobs going in the UK? Just graduated and I'm jobless. Yes I've checked online and applied.

[jakenkid]

Steve Jobs was born in the 50's, he wasn't 'hacking' phones. Indeed, he never 'hacked' phones... He used the phone programming language of the day to tell the phone systems what to do. 🤷‍♂️

[davidbarahona]

Im almost done getting my associates in science and I plan on getting my bachelors in cyber security

[BTRIDQGLEHHUZFBT]

I could make a better security system for sure. All you need is a simple hardware setup but duplicated and each one running the same function but through a different process and then have them cross reference each other so if one goes down the other locks down till the first one is fixed then when they're both back online neither of them are locked down and they both run normally. Besides that why don't people just hard wire their main systems like the electric grid with things that are literally un-hackable like a conditional based approach that has no connection to the internet

[qqq]

Phreaking used to be as easy as blowing your Captain Crunch whistle. I tried blowing a whistle at my pc but the password screen was still sitting there.

[td]

Companies profit from it, of course they won’t build a resilient system.

[athanatic]

You didn't mention transparency or the Open concept once! All these countries are working with closed-source software life Microsoft and Apple and they give access to their source code only to those who they cannot refuse. This is, in reality, the US government and the EU but only their state security apparatus.

All other systems have no transparency to the public (taxpayers) and to those that could make it more secure! This is one of the most important concepts in transparency in government and the Open Source concept in software and especially security software! Keeping the keys secret, of course, but the software closedness is a huge risk and almost all governments of the world, the US included are working with totally closed and secret software in the form of those commercial products.

[seebass]

you gotta make a video on the PHREAKS!

[vnceigz]

4:21 - Whitelists, ie, default-to-block is just safer. It's only downside is false-positives, but it's better safe than sorry. There are very few scenarios which could be a time-critical emergency where someone who is authorized fails to get access and something bad happens, but there _many_ scenarios where someone slipping through a false-negative could do a lot of harm.

[truthboom]

A water droplet penetrates rock after many years of attacking

[UtraVioletDreams]

Ya that some things can exist. Like Pegasus. Is ridiculous

[nathantaylor]

I'm loving this energy she has lately. It's not just reading que cards. She cares about everything she reports on 🥰