CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame

ScentCone writes "The CIA has booked some conference rooms and is working through a simulated 'digital Pearl Harbor' to see how government and industry handle a monster net attack from an imaginary future foe composed of anti-American and anti-globalization hackers. Having been accused of lacking imagination about potential terror attacks, they're using the exercise to better shape the government's roles in a variety of attack scenarios. The networking industry, it seems, is expected to always play a big part in detecting and thwarting such threats, as 9/11-scale economic disruption is a likely bad-guy objective."

Comments

Re:"Anti-American and anti-globalization hackers"

[minus_273]

you have to agree that anti-globalization people are hardly pro-american.

Sept 11

[shish]

to simulate an unprecedented, Sept. 11-like electronic assault ... a devastating cyberattack that affects government and parts of the economy on the scale of the 2001 suicide hijackings

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Will the American government please STFU about this already? Sure it wasn't very nice, but that's not a justification to tie it into every situation as a reason for doing things... By using "sept 11" as an excuse for every little thing, you're reducing the effectiveness where it matters :/