Is Retaliation the Answer To Cyber Attacks? 142
coondoggie writes "Should revenge assaults be just another security tool large IT shops use to counter cyber attacks? It's a controversial idea, and the law generally frowns on cyber attacks in general, but at the Black Hat DC conference last week, some speakers took up the issue of whether and how organizations should counterattack against adversaries clearly using attack tools to break into and subvert corporate data security."
Re:The world would be a better place... (Score:4, Informative)
If all of the above are attacks then what do you call it when one person physically assaults another person?
Battery [wikimedia.org].