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Real-World Cyber City Used To Train Cyber Warriors
Orome1 writes "NetWars CyberCity is a small-scale city located close by the New Jersey Turnpike complete with a bank, hospital, water tower, train system, electric power grid, and a coffee shop. It was developed to teach cyber warriors from the U.S. military how online actions can have kinetic effects. Developed in response to a challenge by U.S. military cyber warriors, NetWars CyberCity is an intense defensive training program organized around missions. 'We've built over eighteen missions, and each of them challenges participants to devise strategies and employ tactics to thwart computer attacks that would cause significant real-world damage,' commented Ed Skoudis, SANS Instructor and NetWars CyberCity Director."
NetWars CyberCity is a small-scale city located close by the New Jersey Turnpike complete with a bank, hospital, water tower, train system, electric power grid, and a coffee shop.
You take out the electricity, and we will all stumble around wondering how to connect to the net...
You take out the coffee shop, and you will find us all focused on your destruction (or on finding another source of coffee, whichever happens first.)
and... just to keep this one going: http://xkcd.com/705/
"You want to know how to help your kids? Leave them the fuck alone." -George Carlin
Should these things not be on their own separate networks? Do we really need the water tower connected to the internet.
do they wear combat gear while on a mission?
sysadmins and parents of newborns get the same amount of sleep.
The article is confusing... Don't the military have massive basements for this sort of thing? They do in movies. Why the New Jersey Turnpike?
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"devise strategies and employ tactics to thwart computer attacks". It's well known that defensive military training teaches offensive skills first to teach defensive skills. Personnel trained to find bugs are trained to plant them. Personnel trained to secure areas and material are trained to pick locks and open safes. So NetWars CyberCity might follow the example.
They have it wrong. It's on a tabletop. The goal of NetWars is to have a predefined and cheap proving ground for doing cyber war games, essentially. It doesn't require a literal city. And the tabletop thing is for the "ooh and ahhh" factor with brass.
From the recent SANS NewsBite entry about it:
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So if you're just some shmo in your parents' basement, you're a hacker (or cracker.. or worst, a terrorist), but when you're part of the military, you're a friggin 'cyber warrior'?? Seriously, that's just fucking stupid.
No sig for you! Come back one year!
Glad to see ALL the bases are covered...
Just think about that the next time your Internet connection goes out.
Disconnect from the Internet or firewall.
Firewall.
Disconnect from the Internet or firewall.
And, finally, firewall.
Advanced training will include finding the wireless access points that idiots have brought in from home so that they can run their iPhones.
The word "cyber" is like "cloud" or "pirate". Every time you hear it, you know for a fact, that the writer doesn't know shit about computers or the Internet. Same goes for iDevice (/ Win 8/Phone) and Twitter users, but they additionally like to pretend they are "hip" in a ridiculously cringe-worthy fashion. At least they got that cringe-worthiness part in common with the former group.
worst post of the day.
"The town is a virtual place that exists only on computer networks run by a New Jersey-based security firm working under contract with the U.S. Air Force. Computers simulate communications and operations, including e-mail, heating systems, a railroad and an online social networking site, dubbed FaceSpace"
"CyberCity itself fits in a six by eight foot area and was created using miniature buildings and houses, the underlying power control systems, hospital software, and other infrastructures are directly from the real world."
Wait. You're mad at the spin of military focused training names sounding military, but other labels you don't feel are as cool applying to non-military?
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
'We've built over eighteen missions, and each of them challenges participants to devise strategies and employ tactics to thwart computer attacks that would cause significant real-world damage'
Then don't connect your vital infrastructure to the INTERNET !!!
AccountKiller
seems like over kill for cyber wars.
Can do the same in small scare and you can even crash some model trains as part of some missions.
Looks like the generals want to solve the hacker threat in the traditional ways, trying to get some soldiers learn to hack. God forbid they trust civilian whitehats.
That's "killing people and breaking stuff" to you and me.
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Sounds like a secure place. I mean, if that won't slow them, they're screwed anyway.
oh joy
time to teach stupid a lesson
...when all the work is done by machines, and we are all out of jobs, what other things will we do apart from go mad, and be clubbed down by various forces in various interesting ways?
When no one has to work, hopefully we can spend our time enjoying ourselves rather than utterly wasting a third to a half of our waking lives.
Anyone who would go mad without work is mad.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Or you can go solo in your parents basement and do the same thing, learn much more, and get usually 100x better, and be so enlightened, so much more smarter than then government that you become a 'terrorist' to their plans.
You become a terrorist when you act criminally against the democratically elected legitimate government in order to further your own vision of society. Whether you do this by blowing up a dam with your advanced explosives knowledge or vandalising the IRS website with your 1337 haxorz skillz is irrelevant.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=HlZRcxvGIWE&NR=1
Thank God someone will be out there to defend us against stuff like this.
"With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone."