GForce Pakistan hackers defaced the U.S. Defense Test and Evaluation
Processional Institute Web site www.dtepi.mil as well as
enduringfreedom.dtepi.mil and nasa.dtepi.mil
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171341.html
after which a rival group of Pakistani vigilante hackers (Yiyat) identified
the purported culprit and retaliated.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171365.html
[Above text PGN-ed from the URLs. I tried to verify the
"processional", but dtepi.mil was apparently off the Net. PGN]
Also, an interesting CNN article on a DoE cyberattack scenario. Best
quote:
The important lesson is that Black Ice showed how interdependent are the
various infrastructure systems -- including telecommunications, utilities
and banking -- and how major might be the combined effects of cyber- and
physical attacks, she says.
The infrastructure system providers didn't understand the
interdependencies among their systems," Scalingi says. "If you talk to
state and local government and local utilities, they'll tell you they have
great response plans. The problem is, they write them in isolation.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/10/21/black.ice.idg/index.html [Dave Stringer-Calvert via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 71]
0:00
#
G!
