IP: FBI's NIPC on "cyber protests" and political hacking

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Source: http://www.nipc.gov/publications/nipcpub/cyberprotests.pdf
>
> National Infrastructure Protection Center
> Cyber Protests: The Threat to the U.S. Information Infrastructure
> October 2001
>
> Executive Summary
>
> Political events and emerging international situations will
> increasingly lead to cyber protests. The cyber protests that have
> occurred thus far have had little impact on U.S. infrastructure. As
> computing technology becomes faster and better, and hacking tools
> become more advanced and easier to use, cyber protesting and
> hacktivism will become more significant to U.S. national interests.
> Cyber protesters are becoming increasingly more organized and their
> techniques more sophisticated but, most likely, will continue to
> deface web sites and perform DoS attacks. There will also be an
> increase in the number of apparently unrelated hacking groups
> participating in the cyber protests. National boundaries will not
> always be clearly delineated in attacks on opposing organizations.
> International activity will also tend to spill over into the United
> States. Because the United States is a multicultural, world-leading
> nation it will suffer from attacks on culturally related sites and
> structures in the future.
>
> Generally, the most popularly targeted sites are those belonging to
> government, educational, commercial, and cultural institutions.
> However, any site with an exploitable vulnerability will be
> susceptible to a cyber attack. The infrastructure has been targeted in
> other countries in cyber protests and it is expected that it will
> eventually be targeted in the United States as well. Cyber protesters
> certainly will target infrastructure more often and exploit
> opportunities to disrupt or damage it.

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