IP: Web defacement and cyberattacks: [risks] Risks Digest 21.71

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:37:08 -0700
> From: Dave Stringer-Calvert <dave_sc () csl sri com>
> Subject: Web defacement and cyberattacks
>
> 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


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