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- And VP Cheney always ciding Obama that Americans aren't safe unt eht obama admin. Mr. cheney you knew all along just how unsafe we were under you and under the cyber attack and yet you still lie lie lie!! Cheney you disgust me more than almost anyone on this planet!
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- Consider what the FBI cyber crime unit spends most of its time on.....chasing prostitutes on Craigslist. Of course, they aren't prepared for terroristic or identity theft attacks.
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- I want to commend Steve Kroft for his story about this issue. I was enthralled by the lack of disscusion amongst the people in the Federal Gov't about the glaring weaknesses in Americas defense. This is a diaster of Major importence in the works. We need to spend more then the 17 Billion allocated to this endeavor. The Texas Representative was correct in his assertation that this is the "next 9-11" waiting to happen, and that the signs, and signals are there "written on the wall". I was startled as anyone that these things were happening to us; and am equally as frightened that they are now in the realm of the possible. I am aware tho that the USA's Dept. of Defense was developing our own form of Cyber-Warfare. This information is all over the net. Yet it seems to me that whatever resources our DoD has poured into this, was money that was wasted. I saw no evidence that we employed our Cyber-Warfare capabilities against either Iraq or Afghanistan, and both of those nations have no real Cyber-Capability on par with say...China. Our American way of life is now under a threat of instant disruption, and our DoD is capable of being infiltrated by our enemies? These glaring, and frightening loopholes need to be addressed immediately, as the long-term ramifications for our National survival are at stake. The daily doses of espionage committed against us is equally as frightening, as our National Security secrets are being sold on the black market to our enemies, and if you are familiar with the teachings of Sun Tzu, them you can see where that is headed. Our technolocigal advantage militarily is being eroded "drop by drop" and our financial resourses are being drained; even to the point they the enemy is "forcing" us to spend vital DoD dollars on things we may not have even needed! My only hope is in the fact that our CIA, NRO, DIA, FBI, DARPA, and other militaty industrial complexs' organizations are actively doing the very same thing! I can plausibly assume that we are, yet I hope that we are at least evening the playing fields, and thwarting the aspirations of those rogue nations and criminal organizations that threaten us daily. We need to take the handcuffs off our intelligence community, and get after these "perpatrators" at once. When you are sleeping with the enemy, sometimes you need to get dirty, It worked for America in the '40's and '50's in S. America, and it should work for us again in the coming decades. We have the strongest, brigghtest minds here in the USA, let these people do their dirty work, and keep what they do out of the News organizations spotlight, as we can all rest comfortably at nite, knowing that those indidviduals are doing what they do for the National Survival of America, and our way of life.
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- Application whitelisting, only let approved software run, will prevent yesterday's, today's and tomorrow's malware. For the critical infrastructure not currently running application whitelisting ... get on board before it is too late?
Nov 4th InfoWorld article on application whitelisting is a good place to start. - Reply to this comment
- All rubbish.. I suppose those who love spy novels want to beleive any cloak and gagger stories anyone cooks up will buy into this nonsense....
look how movies have influenced military and swat teams.. you can't hardly tell the difference in their look.. and the movies came first..
computers don't control the world.. just a tool for those who make decisions.. its not that complicated.. - Reply to this comment
- Considering the last cascading power blackout - the one that took out 30 million people for several days - was due to a fallen tree branch, and the state of disrepair the electrical infrastructure is in, no-one will know whether the next widespread blackout is an attack or simply a breakdown in the patchwork which is the electrical grid. Will it make a difference which of these is the culprit?
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- The United States had used the same tactics with the former Soviet Union.
Documented as the Farewell Dossier, the USA sabotaged during the cold war the Soviet Pipeline, producing one of the biggest non nuclear explosion in 1982 in Siberia
We have been payed with the same coin. Maybe the Russians are involved in latest this type of Cyber-crime - Reply to this comment
- There is more to consider, much more. Consider someone hacking into truck operations communication systems, and data base systems. What would happen if someone were to redirect a truck of hazardous materials or be able to find out when where the materials ship and when and where they are t deliver. It would not take much for some nut case to be able to figure out where to intercept a load. I think the same would happen with our rail system, diverting high profile loads on rail cars and the like. It is a very serious matter and our company is taking action to do the best job we can do to protect the general public, our shippers and drivers from any sort of devious attacks. I agree completely that all of the transsportation software I have seen and software available on the market leaves much to be desired in the form of security.
C R Allison - Transportation Specialist - Raymond Mississippi - Reply to this comment
- People remember "the only thing to fear is fear itself".
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- Critical infrastructures are not just giant video games... somebody at CBS has been watching too many sci-fi movies..or listening to the jabbering of internet security companies
no.. nobody's going to launch nukes from an i-pod.. rest assured... - Reply to this comment
