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After the NSA hack: Cybersecurity in an even more vulnerable world

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
imageCybersecurity just got even more difficult.Charis Tsevis/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

It is looking increasingly likely that computer hackers have in fact successfully attacked what had been the pinnacle of cybersecurity – the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). A few days ago, reports began emerging of claims by a hacking group called the Shadow...

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