Hackers are motivated by Money
{"Image DocumentName": "Hackers are motivated by Money", "Image ImageDescription": "Defacement. Propaganda. Bragging Rights. Reputation Hijacking. Ad Revenue. Stealing Sensitive Info. Ransom. Direct Financial Gain. Information Leaks. Enable other Attacks. Sheraz(2008) OWASP 3.0] argues that motivation for incididents breaks down to about 50% money, and 50% political. His pie chart doesn t quite reflect that, but if you think about what defacement and stealing sensitive info means, you can see how it breaks down. I personally, see much more impact from attacks motivated by money and I see that growing rapidly. However libraries have a special exposure to politically motivated attacks. We often preserve or display special collections. Sometimes those collections are controversial. Think about who steals your books and why? Sometimes they want to keep it, sometimes they want to sell it, but many times they just want to deny access to other people to the content. The same motivation applies to our online information. LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) faces these problems head on. When you presever a collection with LOCKSS historical revisionists will find it hard to secretly delete or modify a collection or item. Prior to the Olympics in Bejing, there was controvesy of China s human rights. There was also a backlash from ex-pat Chinese who created a Denial of Service against CNN whom they felt was spreading lies about China. At one University I know, their museum had a chinese display at this time. They were seriously worried about someone defacing the physical materials. What if it had been an online collection or display? Would the library/museum/university been cyberattacked? Types of Cyberattacks by Volume. Shezaf (2008)", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}