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US Most Vulnerable To Cyberattack?
alphadogg writes "Several nations, most prominently Russia, the People's Republic of China and North Korea, are already assembling cyber armies and attack weapons that could be used to attack other nations. Given that the United States is heavily dependent on technology for everything from computer-based banking to supply-chain tracking and air-traffic control, it's particularly vulnerable to the denial-of-service attacks, electronic jamming, data destruction and software-based disinformation tricks likely in a cyberattack. Here's what ex-presidential adviser Richard Clarke, who is releasing a new book called Cyber War, and others are saying needs to be done to keep cyberwars from escalating into full-scale combat."
Nope.
At my company, a large indian offshoring company has taken over about 80% of the top technical jobs.
And of our remaining programmers, at least 90% are not allowed to code any more- only design. out of a 200 person staff that coded for 10 to 20 years, less than 20 code.
I coded until 2007. Used to be pretty good too. Probably would take me 90 days to come back up to speed even with just installing the tools (and that's assuming I could get to the tools over a battle damaged internet).
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
That's an awfully broad statement. There's evidence, though it's mostly based on circumstance. I don't think I need to be linking articles about the China Cyber Attack stuff, or North Korea, as that's all fresh.
But I'm happy to offer other links from the recent and not so recent past that are relevant.
Somewhat recent -
Russian Cyber Attacks on Georgia
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1670
PowerGrid Vulnerability of the US
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1891562,00.html
In a Galaxy Far Far Away... 1998, a brief description of L0pht testifying before congress.Excerpt included.
http://hsgac.senate.gov/l0pht.htm
""We have become so dependent on communications links and electronic microprocessors that a determined adversary or terrorist could shut down federal operations or damage the economy simply by hacking into our computers. The two General Accounting office reports which will be released at our hearing--one on the State Department and one on the Federal Aviation Administration- -raise serious concerns about the risks to the public because of information security weaknesses.""
> I used to see him speak in the Clinton years
As I recall he was one of the few people who was trying to warn about the rise of AQ. Given the outcome, I don't see how this should be construed to be a negative.
Leave the gun, take the cannolis.
I don't know if any one saw this or takes Wired seriously for that matter, but here is an "article" about cyberwar attacks being an urban legend. There was an article on Wired a while ago about the same thing, it also brings up the idea that using the word "Cyber" is a very negative prefix for an internet based situation usually before an equally negative word like terrorism or war http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/urban-legend/ Have at it.