Could a cyberwar cripple the U.S.?

[John Walker <jwalker () HWCN ORG>]

The Net, Issue #22

http://www.themestream.com/articles/305422

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Could a cyberwar cripple the U.S.?

It's April Fool's Day, 2002. Glitches in air traffic controller
screens nearly cause a collision above New York's LaGuardia Airport. Two
weeks later, California Independent System Operator Corp., which
controls California's power grid, somehow misplaces an electrical energy
order to Southern California Edison, leaving two-thirds of San Diego in
the dark. Then in May, a high-power microwave burst fries the
electronics at an abortion clinic in Virginia.

Hypothetical "information warfare" (IW) exercises like these are being
played out around the country in preparation for what politicians, the
military and law enforcement officials fear will be an orchestrated
cyberattack on critical U.S. infrastructure companies. The theory goes
that if a well-funded, organized series of cyberattacks were to strike
at a target's economic and structural nerve centers, it would send the
target society into chaos and make it difficult for the military to
communicate and move troops.

This particular information war game was played out among 75 IT
executives attending an IW workshop at the SANS Institute's Joint
Computer Security Conference in Monterey, Calif.

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