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The Dirty Dozen: The 12 Security Lapses That Make Your .Com, .Org, or = =2ENet an Unwitting Collaborator with Cyberterrorists
by <= b>Frank Fiore, Jean Francois
MAR 01= , 2002

 

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Are you unintentionally supporting cyberte= rrorism? If your security isn't ultra-tight, your .com, .org, or .net sit= e just may be colluding in cyberterrorist activity. Frank Fiore and Jean = Fran=E7ois provide a checklist of questions to which you need solid, inte= lligence-safe answers.

This article is pro= vided courtesy of Sams.

The World Changed on September 11, 2001

What changed on 9/11 was the realization that we can be attacked right= here at home. And with that realization came once again the subject of info= war and its partner in crime cyberterrorism. You've heard the new= s, read the articles, and seen the movie—and it goes something like this:

It's June, the children are out of school, and as highways and= airports fill with vacationers, rolling power outages hit sections of Los= Angeles, Chicago, Washington, and New York. An airliner is mysteriously k= nocked off the flight control system and crashes in Kansas.

Parts of the 911 service in Washington fail. Supervisors at the Dep= artment of Defense discover that their email and telephone services are disrupted= =2E Officers aboard a U.S. Navy cruiser find that their computer systems have= been attacked.

As incidents mount, the stock market drops precipitously, and panic= surges through the population.

Is this "electronic Pearl Harbor" myth or reality?

Much of the scenario above—except for the plane, stock market cra= sh, and panic—actually occurred in 1997, when 35 hackers hired by the Nation= al Security Agency launched simulated attacks on the U.S. electronic infrastructure.

The exercise, called "Eligible Receiver," achieved "roo= t level" access in 36 of the Department of Defense's 40,000 netwo= rks. The simulated attack also "turned off" sections of the U.S. pow= er grid; "shut down" parts of the 911 network in Washington, D.C.,= and other cities; and gained access to systems aboard a Navy cruiser at sea. = The results of the exercise confirmed that in a software-driven world, an ene= my need not invade the territory—or the air above the territory—of a co= untry to control or damage that country's resources.


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