Hi,
Thanks for your thoughts. If the intelligence field is anything to go by, disinformation and misinformation are not new. They just went digital - just like crime and News media. You're concerned about whether it's a new real in cybersecurity and my take is yes and no. I would think yes in that by using the digital media, it has created a new concern to look you for; a clear danger in itself. In the same breath I believe it's simply social engineering in a large scale - crowd science. In the past leaflets have been shared, announcements made over the grape vine to the same effect.
Having said that I agree it deserves greater scrutiny. It should be enshrined in threat hunting and incidence response.
In the end it's just misinformation, just like crime is just crime, even if coated as Cybercrime.
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BobbyJoe
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Sent: 10-09-2018 11:29
From: Sagar Kaul
Subject: Fake News is a cybersecurity Problem
Information Operations are a Cybersecurity Problem: Toward a New Strategic Paradigm to Combat Disinformation
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| Information Operations are a Cybersecurity Problem: Toward a New Strategic Paradigm to Combat Disinformation |
| Disinformation, misinformation, and social media hoaxes have evolved from a nuisance into high-stakes information war. State actors with geopolitical motivations, ideological true believers, non-state violent extremists, and economically-motivated enterprises are able to manipulate narratives on social media with ease, and it's happening each and every day. |
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We are a startup from India and Ireland trying to address the problem of disinformation and protect businesses and governments. Just wanted to know how many of you think Disinformation attacks are new area of cybersecurity?
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Sagar Kaul
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