Karen Salmansohn wrote a piece for the Huffington post on “cyber” war (still hate that word) from within.
From Huffington Post:
By all mainstream press accounts, the U.S. remains focused on guarding against inbound attacks by large and small enemies, a classic defensive posture anticipating warfare coming from the outside-in: a War of Mass Destruction.
But what if it’s an inside-out job — a cyber-attack via the internet: a War of Mass Disruption?
Think about it: We’ve become a nation of “internet addicts.” Even the smallest of businesses is obsessively dependent on constantly accessing, transferring, and acting upon information via the Internet.
I confess to personally often feeling like a new millennium O.C.D. character in an Oliver Sachs book: “The girl who couldn’t stop watching my email” — with minor symptoms of “google junkie.”
And the more all of us Americans increase our dependence on the Internet, the more we make the Internet a prime target for “Hacktivists” — enemy cyber terrorists.
And, it really wouldn’t be that difficult to do. I would be more concerned with bored teens at this point than with a concerted attack. Think about it. The “bad guys” take out the internet? Not entirely likely as they need it for the same reasons that China wouldn’t hit Atlanta in a nuclear strike. They would want to watch their progress on CNN.
Read on.
[tags]Cyber War, Insider Threat[/tags]
I was at a presentation by Kevin Coleman, he is one of the top cyber warfare subject matter experts in the US and he showed the data about current threats and forecasted the most likely scenarios of attacks. We are way behind and can’t rely on the government to do everything. The risk of cyber warfare is real and the likelihood of a major incident is increasing.
Indeed. “Todd” is it? How are things in Pittsburgh?
I’m afraid I’m going to have to penalize you 10 points for excessive use of the word “cyber”.