U.S. concludes 'Cyber Storm' mock Internet attacks

[lovuian]

http://english.pravda.ru/news/science/11-02-2006/75803-internet-0

The U.S. government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.

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Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events.

The Internet survived, even against fictional abuses against the world's computers. Experts depicted hackers who shut down electricity in 10 states, failures in vital systems for online banking and retail sales, infected discs mistakenly distributed by commercial software companies and critical flaws discovered in core Internet technology.

Some mock attacks were aimed at causing a "significant cyber disruption" that could seriously damage energy, transportation and health care industries and undermine public confidence, said George Foresman, an undersecretary at the Homeland Security Department
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Cyber tested...

[niyad]

1. people flooding the net with the truth is dangerous, but those flooding

the net with the unending lies and manipulations of the current administration are not?

does anybody notice that in order for them to be aware of exactly who is saying what online, they have to be paying a LOT of attention.

[maddezmom]

2. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2099945