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Operation 'Cyber Storm' Starts Tomorrow

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the are-you-ready-for-fun-and-excitement dept.

cyberbian writes "Federal Computing Week reports that the Department of Homeland Security have moved up their rescheduled cyber security exercise, designed to test enterprise and private sector alike. The tests are expected to run from February 6-10, and are intended to gauge the state of readiness for a cyber attack on critical infrastructure. FCW also reports that the scope of the fake attacks will be global, and they are coordinating with partners in Australia, Canada and the UK."

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  1. Re:From TFA by LilGuy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well.. if those large corps are all in on it, what chance does anyone have? Unless they're running a super hardened linux/bsd... cisco has undocumented/unpatched bugs in their IOS code that can easily be exploited.. as does MS I'm sure.. verisign could easily fuck people's certs up... come on... its not even a fair fight.

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  2. Re:Damage by Gyorg_Lavode · · Score: 3, Informative

    It sounds like they uncovered 2 issues. First the things you called "childhood tactics" impared your operations and second, you don't have an addiquate policy to deal with compormised systems. (THis could be in a bunch of policies: Disaster recover, incident reporting and forensics, Configuration Management, etc)

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