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Officials Warn: Cyber War On the US Has Begun

snydeq writes "Security pros and government officials warn of a possible cyber 9/11 involving banks, utilities, other companies, or the Internet, InfoWorld reports. 'A cyber war has been brewing for at least the past year, and although you might view this battle as governments going head to head in a shadow fight, security experts say the battleground is shifting from government entities to the private sector, to civilian targets that provide many essential services to U.S. citizens. The cyber war has seen various attacks around the world, with incidents such as Stuxnet, Flame, and Red October garnering attention. Some attacks have been against government systems, but increasingly likely to attack civilian entities. U.S. banks and utilities have already been hit.'"

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  1. Re:"Cyber 9/11" by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you get man?!

    The porn! They're going to be deleting all of our precious, precious porno!

    It'll be like back in the dark ages again with cave drawings and domestic animals.

    Game over man, GAME OVER!

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  2. 9/11 times... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spottswoode: From what I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.N.C.E has gathered, it would be 9/11 times 100.
    Gary Johnston: 9/11 times a hundred? Jesus, that's...
    Spottswoode: Yes, 91,100.

  3. Our little green friend by retaj · · Score: 4, Funny

    Begun, the Cyber Wars have.

  4. Re:"Cyber 9/11" by pitchpipe · · Score: 3, Funny
    Well, to be fair, they did tone down the rhetoric a bit. Some of the phrases they were considering that were dropped in favor of "cyber 9/11":
    • Cyber Apocalypse
    • Cyber Armageddon
    • Cyber Annihilation
    • Cyber Holocaust
    • Cyber Extinction

    Personally I like "The Cyber Extinction". It just sounds awesome!

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  5. Re:"Cyber 9/11" by Warhawke · · Score: 3, Funny

    My God, it will be 911 times 404: file not found! That's, like, 368,044!!

  6. Re:"Cyber 9/11" by GT66 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been using the color copier at work to print my favorite pornos out one frame at a time on reams of company paper to turn into flip books.

  7. Re:"Cyber 9/11" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Well, sucks to be you when "the cloud" evaporates into thin air.

    My porn is stored locally, backed up, and yes, technically I guess you could say that the copies the FBI holds on behalf of Megaupload count as off-site storage.

  8. Re:"Cyber 9/11" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait until you try Cyberhyperbole!

  9. Re:"Cyber 9/11" by gandhi_2 · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...says an Iranian teenager, sitting in a Tehran cafe, posting as girlintraining, as logged in through an ssh tunnel to her employer's office.

    "muhahaha!" says the Iranian. Posting submit, only slowed temporarily by the captcha: iRonY.