Wired magazine has a nice write up about the recent Cyber Storm exercise. The part that I find rather amusing is that during the exercise, one of the targets apparently wasn’t going to take it lying down. One of them counter-hacked.
From Wired:
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. Perplexed organizers sent everyone an urgent e-mail marked “IMPORTANT!” instructing them not to probe or attack the game’s control computers.
“Any time you get a group of (information technology) experts together, there’s always a desire, ‘Let’s show them what we can do,'” said George Foresman, a former senior Homeland Security official. “Whether its intent was embarrassment or a prank, we had to temper the enthusiasm of the players.”
The exercise was a big deal for all concerned.
The entire exercise cost over $3 million. Amusing that someone hacked them back.
[tags]Cyberstorm, Cyber Storm, Critical Infrastructure[/tags]
