The year 2016 is likely to be remembered for many reasons, particularly as a notorious and profitable year for hackers of both nation and non-nation-state varieties. Over the last year, we have witnessed an Internet of Things (IOT) enabled Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that exceeded 1 terabyte per second, a resurgence of cyber information operations and a ransomware attack that impacted over 2,000 systems in the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Corporate offices, public agencies, Olympic athletes, political candidates, and tech CEOs were all directly targeted during a rather volatile year, all of which served to remind us of the personal nature of this fight. Aptly, Hackers were named as Time magazine’s runner-up for Person of the Year.
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The Cyber Defense Review
Volume 2, Issue 1