title: The Cybersecurity Dilemma: Hacking, Trust and Fear Between Nations
author:  Ben Buchanan 
description: <br>"Ben Buchanan provides a carefully researched and balanced account of the increasing intrusions into cyber networks. He also suggests some practical steps to mitigate the effects. This is an important analysis of the difficult problem of cyber insecurity we all face." -- Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University, and author of Is the American Century Over?
zlib_text: 01\. Introduction
  
  
  It’s been over three years since the first edition of Secrets and Lies was
  published. Reading through it again after all this time, the most amazing
  thing is how little things have changed. Today, two years after 9/11 and in
  the middle of the worst spate of computer worms and viruses the world has ever
  seen, the book is just as relevant as it was when I wrote it.
  
  
  
  
  
  The attackers and attacks are the same. The targets and the risks are the
  same. The security tools to defend ourselves are the same, and they’re just as
  ineffective as they were three years ago. If anything, the problems have
  gotten worse. It’s the hacking tools that are more effective and more
  efficient. It’s the ever-more-virulent worms and viruses that are infecting
  more computers faster. Fraud is more common. Identity theft is an epidemic.
  Wholesale information theft—of credit card numbers and worse—is happening more
  often. Financial losses are on the rise. The only good news is that
  cyberterrorism