Katie Benner, Columnist

Benner on Tech: Cybercrime's Rubicon and Ventureland Heats Up

Katie Benner's roundup of the most interesting things in tech today.

December 8, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC

Katie Benner is a Bloomberg View columnist who writes about technology, innovation, and the cult and culture of Silicon Valley. She lives in San Francisco. Benner previously wrote a tech and finance column for the Information. She has worked at Fortune, TheStreet.com and CNN Money, and was a freelance writer based in China covering culture, business and politics. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bowdoin College.

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About a month ago I wrote that we could see malicious cyberattacks that look a lot more like terrorism and less like the usual hacker modus operandi, which is to steal and sell information. I'd heard that we were in the midst of a significant shift in the security landscape whereby cyberattacks once reserved for governments and critical infrastructure would be used against corporate America.