3Qs: Analyzing the cybersecurity threat posed by hackers

Two weeks ago, Anony­mous, a global group of hackers, suc­cess­fully infil­trated the Depart­ment of Justice’s system and released stolen data. At the same time,  al-​​Qaida, the inter­na­tional ter­rorist orga­ni­za­tion, released a video calling for an “elec­tronic jihad” on the United States. Northeastern University news office asked Themis Papa­george, an asso­ciate clin­ical pro­fessor in the Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence, and the director of the college’s infor­ma­tion assur­ance pro­gram, to ana­lyze the threat posed by rogue hacker groups and what the U.S. gov­ern­ment can do to pro­tect itself against future attacks.

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