Government Giving No More Free Passes To Cybercriminals

At RSA Conference Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin explained the governments new all tools approach to cracking down on cyberespionage and other crime.

SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, APR. 22 -- Attribution, extradition, diplomacy and other factors have largely helped cyberiminals evade the law. Yet, as John P. Carlin, assistant attorney general for national security at the U.S. Department of Justice explained at the RSA Conference today, the US has become more aggressive, aiming to increase the costs of cybercrime and make it clear that it is not okay to steal from American companies.
There are no free passes, said Carlin. That is where the PLA case came from.
In May 2014, DOJ
indicted five members
of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) for hacking and espionage offenses against American companies in the nuclear power, metals and solar products industries. Although Carlin said its likely those five people may never be apprehended and see their day in court, it is important that they be publicly named and formally charged. We dont want to send the wrong message that were decriminalizing theft, he said.
In December 2014, the
FBI officially named North Korea
as the culprit behind the attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment, and President Obama stated We will respond. We will respond proportionately and well respond in a place and time and manner that we choose.
Thats an important message, said Carlin, not just to the North Koreans, but to all the [malicious] actors out there.
Carlin explained that attribution is not always easy, but that to the degree it is possible, the government aims to act upon it. One, we have to be able to figure out who did it, and thats where we need the private sectors help. Two, we cant be afraid of saying it, otherwise its cost-free. Three, then there have to be costs.
Those costs, said Carlin, may include indictments or a variety of diplomatic of economic sanctions; and those measures must increase until the activity stops.
These are hard cases to prove up, he said. But theyre not impossible.

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