Cyber Storm 2, England Expects
CYBER Storm: “In the middle of the biggest-ever ‘Cyber Storm’ war game to test the nation’s hacker defenses, someone quietly targeted the very computers used to conduct the exercise.”
The surprising culprit? The players themselves, the same government and corporate experts responsible for detecting and fending off attacks against vital computer systems, according to hundreds of pages of heavily censored files obtained by The Associated Press.
Cyber Storm 2:
The upcoming “Cyber Storm 2” in March also will simulate electronic attacks against chemical plants and communication lines, and include targets in California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.
“They point out where your expectations of your capabilities may be overstated,” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the AP. “They may reveal to you things you haven’t thought about. It’s a good way of testing that you’re going to do the job the way you think you were. It’s the difference between doing drills and doing a scrimmage.”
Who’s in it?
For the participants — including government officials from the United States, England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and executives from technology and transportation companies — the mock disasters came fast and furious: hacker break-ins at an airline; stolen commercial software blueprints; problems with satellite navigation systems; trouble with police radios in Montana; school closures in Washington, Miami and New York; computer failures at border checkpoints.
England. Not the United Kingdom. Not even Britain. England…
Posted: 31st, January 2008 | In: Reviews Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
