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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."
I am going to have to disagree with you completely. A couple years back a government system was compromised. This system contained a large sum of information on military service members. This information included addresses station assignments deployment information birth dates social security numbers. If you think this to be a simple "inconvenience" please post all of your similar information here for us to use as we see fit. Let's break this down a little so you understand why this causes terror. 1. A couple years ago groups were targetting family members of deployed soldiers to cause distraction and harm. A distraught soldier (term to include airmen sailors and marines for sake of not typing all repeatedly throughout this) is not at his peak in combat and is more likely to make "mistakes". 2. Most of the above mentioned information is all that is needed to falsify an identity and present yourself as one of these people Now, I have personally seen the effects of cyber attacks and it terrorizing people. The reaction of many service members durring this time was obviously not "discomfort" or "inconvenience". I would think theass reaction accross the armed forces to resemble a controlled terror. Controlled only through training and discipline.