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

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 25, 2005 @06:03PM from the do-you-want-to-play-a-game dept.

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."

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

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