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Cyberterror Not Yet a Credible Threat, Says Policy Thinktank
Trailrunner7 writes "A new report by a Washington policy think tank dismisses out of hand the idea that terrorist groups are currently launching cyber attacks and says that the recent attacks against US and South Korean networks were not damaging enough to be considered serious incidents. The report, written by James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, looks at cyberwar through the prism of the Korean attacks, and calls the idea that terrorists have attack capabilities and just aren't using them 'nonsensical.' 'A very rough estimate would say that there is a lag of three and eight years between the capabilities developed by advanced intelligence agencies and the capabilities available for purchase or rental in the cybercrime black market. The evidence for this is partial and anecdotal, but the trend has been consistent for more two decades,' Lewis writes."
cyberterror? someone posted something about 'What If They Turned Off the Internet?'. now that's a threat!
let me share somethin' special with you, which i call perry's perspective..
The main stream news STILL does not want to admit that cyber 'terror' (like the attacks on twitter, facebook and in S. Korea) were conducted via WINDOWS zombie computers, as part of a segment of the greater BOTNET.
There is only ONE reason why they may not want to admit Microsoft Windows allows BOTNETS and that is MONEY.
If the mainstream media where to announce that all of Microsoft Windows computers have a major security flaw that can only be fix properly by rewritting the Kernel and File system permission design, would potentially seriously hurt the Economy. Think about all the people that would stop shopping Online... it is actually better 'economically' to just let cyber criminals phish away and get all our credit card numbers and steal some poor souls identity, than to cause mass hysteria.
5 years ago I and some friends of mine were "playing" and we seen the F.B.i.. I'm not trying to be nonsensical but this is LOL in teen-age terms. Really, feds, you NEED juice. daed