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RE: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout
From: Andre Ludwig <ALudwig () Calfingroup com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:10:52 -0700
Just to add to the deluge of articles that should be driving the point home. http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,205339,00.html "Industry officials said that during the second half of last year, 60 per cent of the country's power and energy companies experienced hacking attacks. None was successful." So don't simply dismiss the theories that we have brought to light simply because you think that "they" don't have the intelligence to do these things. All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. -Sun Tzu Andre Ludwig, CISSP -----Original Message----- From: Michael Scheidell [mailto:scheidell () secnap net] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:58 PM To: Geoff Shively Cc: Drew Copley; full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout
I particularly like this: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95049,00.html "In the entire history of FirstEnergy, FirstEnergy spokesman Todd
Schneider
said there hasn't been an outage of any system due to hackers, and that
that
the weather in northeastern Ohio did more damage.
In light of this: "The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, despite a belief by plant personnel that the network was protected by a firewall, SecurityFocus has learned. " see: http://www.security-focus.com/news/6767 -- Michael Scheidell, CEO SECNAP Network Security, LLC Sales: 866-SECNAPNET / (1-866-732-6276) Main: 561-368-9561 / www.secnap.net Looking for a career in Internet security? http://www.secnap.net/employment/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- RE: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout, (continued)
- RE: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Drew Copley (Aug 19)
- Re: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout gregh (Aug 19)
- Re: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Geoff Shively (Aug 20)
- RE: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Drew Copley (Aug 20)
- Re: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Michael Scheidell (Aug 20)
- RE: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Drew Copley (Aug 20)
- RE: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Drew Copley (Aug 19)
- Re: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Michael Gale (Aug 19)
- Re: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 20)
- RE: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Drew Copley (Aug 20)
- Re: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 20)
- RE: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout JT (Aug 19)
- RE: Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Andre Ludwig (Aug 20)