“Geolocate” the Cyber Attack

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Interviewed on Radio 4, Lt General Harry Raduege, who chairs the Deloitte Centre for Cyber Innovation in Washington DC, spoke about the need to Geolocate the source of cyber attacks.

This is probably the first time I have heard this term used outside of the geo-information community and then on National Radio!

Apparently the attack was executed from Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province in Eastern China. This is an interesting example of the value of location in our world of globalisation with all its complications.

To read the full article, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13623378