World War 2.0 – Is this the New Warfare?

By Saturday December 29, 2007

An attack of this nature would surely cripple portions of the United States.

From Wired Science.

Thanks ECA.



13 Comments
  1. ECA says:
    12/29/2007 at 12:29 pm

    Cripple is correct, IF THESE corps don’t understand the BASICS, of keeping BACKUPS and that MOST systems don’t NEED to be on the net to DO the job they are designed for.

    I’ve seen too many Intra-NETS(internal networks) that SOMEONE THINKS need access to the INTERNET or they Hook 1 computer from the INTRA-net to the internet…And this is the DOOR into their systems.
    If a system Doesn’t NEED to be on the NET, don’t connect it TO anything CONNECTED to the net.

    Which reminds me of a recent occurrence, at a Federal state facility, and EMAIL.. WHY in the world would you ALLOW anyone AT work to receive email FROM ANYONE, NOT related to work, is STUPID, and You should MAJOR scan ANY email with attachments, anyway.

  2. satchboogie says:
    12/29/2007 at 12:49 pm

    Use the emergency broadcast system to tell everyone to go home and unplug their computer, problem solved.

  3. bill says:
    12/29/2007 at 1:06 pm

    Oh, lay-off all your IT Networking people, outsource everything offshore. run windoz. Bend over and kiss your ass good bye.

    Or, you can FIGHT BACK! employ internet ‘countermeasures’. flood their routers and network with IOS admin commands.

    This should get really interesting…

  4. dusan maletic says:
    12/29/2007 at 1:17 pm

    Having worked for quite some time in one of USA Nat.Labs. I feel some response is needed to #1 comment ending although tangential to the story…

    Nature of Nat.Labs. is such that the communication that is work related arrives from the whole world. It is not a corporate environment where you can set a narrow range for work-related e-mail origin/destination. Add to that the triviality of spoofing the e-mail source and there you are. Filtering can work only so far. When both the attackers and regular communication arrive from the same destination (say Chinese University), some will slip through and some (even careful) people will be caught. Example from my own project that involved the recently affected Nat.Lab.: people participating it ranged in location from China, Korea, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Italy, Russia,… and many domestic locations.

    Now, back to the story.. What I see as a most significant issue is that the source of the conflict is still ye’olde human nature. Even this “new age” warfare could have been avoided if both sides dealt with each other with common sense instead of the provocations.

  5. Jägermeister says:
    12/29/2007 at 1:58 pm

    #2 – satchboogie – Use the emergency broadcast system to tell everyone to go home and unplug their computer, problem solved.

    I guess we should be worried if the message over the emergency broadcast system comes out as Предупреждение! Пойдите домой и отключите ваш компьютер! 😉

  6. Danijel says:
    12/29/2007 at 2:17 pm

    #5 I guess the idea is that more people means more zombies which means it would be MUCH easier to attack any individual government or non-government organization…

    Having said that, this whole movie is lame and unprofessional. Where have all the days of professional journalism gone?

  7. Jägermeister says:
    12/29/2007 at 2:36 pm

    So, what’s new? DDoS have been around for years. And that it’s used by organized thugs and Governments (the U.S., China, Russia, North Korea and probably many other nations, have all cyber warfare units) is nothing new either.

  8. GigG says:
    12/29/2007 at 2:40 pm

    #7. Wired gave up journalism 10 years ago.

  9. Mister Catshit says:
    12/29/2007 at 3:07 pm

    #7, Danijel,

    You make a good point. When the production crew have a budget to work with, they can usually come up with something worth watching. When they are working on a shoestring type budget or even free, don’t expect the production quality to be as good. As the larger news sources lose more and more paying business, they can’t afford to send journalists and production crews out for as many stories. The second tier of journalism is not as proficient or good.

  10. DavidtheDuke says:
    12/29/2007 at 4:37 pm

    Has anyone seen the Wired magazine lately? I’d say most of the thing is ads now. I remember one issue had 4 of those thick, obnoxious pages that act like bookmarks. Everytime I get an issue I ritually rip out any obnoxiously thick page trying to get my attention. I’m not resubscribing either.

  11. Jägermeister says:
    12/29/2007 at 4:42 pm

    #11 – DavidtheDuke

    I stopped buying it a while back for the reasons you mentioned.

  12. Dana Hartsock says:
    12/29/2007 at 11:17 pm

    My Russian is extremely rusty… but I found that amusing.


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