Cyberwarfare
We know that people have been sniffing around our networks for some time. The most significant attack was May 2001 by some Chinese hackers. Now the federal government is scrambling to prepare for the next round. The Washington Post reports:
The Bush administration is stepping up an internal debate on the rules of engagement for cyberwarfare as evidence mounts that foreign governments are surreptitiously exploring our digital infrastructure, a top official said yesterday.
As terrorists and nations begin to understand the potential for disruption and chaos caused by a major successful cyber-attack, they will dedicate more resources and brain-power to the effort. The next round will be more significant and directed than the last, and so it will continue. This is going to go on for a long time. Remember Code Red?
U.S. officials also believe it is possible that a foreign government helped create the Code Red virus that took control of 314,000 servers last year and directed them to attack White House computers.
The attacks that we had last year passed mainly through servers in China and Brazil. At one time, we were taking several hundred thousand hits an hour. The Hong Ke (honkers) claimed responsibility:
Chinese hackers say they didn't initiate the conflict, claiming U.S. hackers were taunting them as far back as April 1. Dubbing the conflict China's sixth cyberwar, Honker Union launched the campaign against the United States on May 1, the May Day workers' holiday. The offensive action coincided with escalating diplomatic tensions between Beijing and Washington over the April collision of a Navy surveillance plane over the South China Sea. (Info Security Magazine)
Wired magazine was calling it "World Cyberwar I". Meanwhile, the US is creating its own plans for cyberwarfare.
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