Traceability --- Interesting topic! As Tracy said, there are potent cyber-forensic capabilities...however maybe the question should be analyzed from the perspective of who was the victim of the attack!? Especially if the target of a severe attack was a person/organization/institution from a developing country, the forensic/investigation resources (human and technical) will be limited (probably only foreign expert help can assist for more successful investigation). The tools are here, however the digital divide, and the different levels of preparedness among states make things more problematic...This situation uncovers the need for a new international negotiation/framework... Why not create "international cyber investigation expert teams" that could be used by different countries (aside of the existing collaboration of law-enforcement agencies, Europol / Interpol and such...)? If one can "rent" hacking teams for conducting a cyber attack...why not "rent" cybersecurity investigation teams and services legally.

Source author: Vladimir Nikolov vladimir984@yahoo.com