Re: cyber-9/11

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

The Katrina line is also in the bill:

(6) Paul Kurtz, a Partner and chief operating officer of Good Harbor
Consulting as well as a senior advisor to the Obama Transition Team for
cybersecurity, recently stated that the United States is unprepared to
respond to a ''cyber-Katrina'' and that ''a massive cyber disruption
could have a cascading, long-term impact without adequate co-ordination
between government and the private sector.''

Perhaps "recently" means he said it on April 1.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Collins [mailto:mcollins () aleae com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 6:25 PM
To: Paul M. Moriarty
Cc: Larry Seltzer; funsec
Subject: Re: [funsec] cyber-9/11

I preferred it when we called it an "Electronic Pearl Harbor".

I also swore I saw someone call it a Cyber-Katrina last week.

So many metaphors, so little time.

On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Paul M. Moriarty wrote:

> Blow up peering points?
>
> Wait, I got it:  Rent 100's of backhoes across the country.  Dig in.
>
> - Paul -
>
>
> On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Larry Seltzer wrote:
>
> > From the just-introduced Rockefeller-Snowe bill (U.S. Senate S.773)  
> > (http://www.infracritical.com/papers/cybersec4.pdf
> > ):
> >
> > 2(10) According to the National Journal, Mike McConnell, the former
> > Director of National Intelligence, told President Bush in May 2007
> > that if the 9/11 attackers had chosen computers instead of airplanes
> > as their weapons and had waged a massive assault on a U.S. bank, the
> > economic consequences would have been ''an order of magnitude
> > greater'' than those cased by the physical attack on the World Trade
> > Center. Mike McConnell has subsequently referred to cybersecurity as
> > the ''soft underbelly of this country.''
> >
> > I read this and I have to ask, basically, WTF does this mean? On top
> > of it not being within the capabilities of Al Qaeda to do such a
> > thing, I have to wonder what they could really have done.
> >
> > Larry Seltzer
> > eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> > http://security.eweek.com/
> > http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
> > Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> > larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com
> >
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