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Simulated Hack To Test US Government Response
superapecommando writes "Security industry analysts and lawmakers will get an unprecedented chance next week to evaluate how the government might respond to a hack attack on critical infrastructure targets.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington-based non-profit established in 2007 by several lawmakers, will host a simulated nation-wide cyber-attack next Tuesday for a group of former administration and national security officials, who will be playing the roles of Cabinet members."
not only that, but knowing a hack is coming is not exactly realistic.
I'm sure the results will say "we're well prepared for a hack" even though reality proves otherwise.
From reading TFA I'm fairly sure no pen-testing will be involved.
By the look of it it's going to be a beurocratic drill rather than a technical one.
No actuall hacking, just a load of suits in a room being given fictional reports of the progress of the "cyber attack" against them.
They pretend to know anything at all about it, they make fictional descisions and then some consultants go over it all afterwards with them and try to guess which chocies wouldn't have been good ones had it been a real situation.
Except that article is all fluff and lacking any type of intelligence.
Those were regularly scheduled exercises which take place annually in the exact same spot every year. The FACT is, no one in the military was embarrassed. Period. Only the idiot reporters, who improperly frame it as an embarrassment, have been embarrassed.
This is reality. The Chinese, wishing to cause a publicity stunt, hoping that idiots, which are frequently referred to as reporters, will pick up on a stunt are report on it because one, they are idiots, and two, won't actually check fact their story. And so, the Chinese decide to quietly sit in the middle of nowhere waiting for the US military to come along; as they've done every year preceding for who knows how many years. Sure enough, just like every year before, the US Navy comes cruising along in the exact same area. The Chinese pop up and start cruising toward the highest value target available; a US aircraft carrier. Next, idiot reporter states the military is embarrassed because he's too stupid to realize they are not.
The simple truth is, unless they are able to break US military cryptography, which I very seriously doubt, or if they are planning on a preemptive strike whereby China disappears from the face of the Earth, this is in no way, shape, or form, representative of any type of military action possible by the Chinese.
The Chinese do not pose any credible threat to the US Navy in open waters. None. Not one bit. They do, however, pose a threat in regional, shallow waters, which is why the Navy is pushing so hard to improve their sonar capabilities in that environment.
To summarize, the only people embarrassed by the Chinese are idiot reporters and ignorant masses who believe it speaks to China's Naval capabilities. In reality, it was a completely non-news event and reports and people who ignorantly repeat such stories are nothing but sock puppets for the Chinese propaganda machine; which the US Military is now trying to play to obtain yet additional funding.