Universities top the list for hackers
FT, 27/02/14
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“A lot of these universities happen to be doing research today that will be classified in five years if the navy or the air force picks up the research,” he said [Ken Geers, senior global threat analyst at FireEye]. “So you can see why the advanced persistent threats might be thinking that far ahead to support their mission.”
Universities could be looking at “torpedoes, hypersonic missiles, high performance quantum computing” that would “benefit the military or intelligence organisation of any state”, he said.
He added that universities often lacked the protections that government and large critical infrastructure providers are putting in place and their staff’s openness to collaboration may mean they are not as “guarded” as, for example, a government employee.