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Does cyber-terrorism exist?
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:35:00 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.crn.com.au/Feature/4652,does-cyberterrorism-exist.aspx By Negar Salek CRN Magazine 24 June 2008 Global security experts gathered in Malaysia last month to help ramp up the world’s defenses against cyber-terrorism Dubbed by organisers as ‘the largest ministerial-level gathering ever organised about cyber-terrorism’, the World Cyber Security Summit (WCSS), was recenlty held in Malaysia. Hosted by the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism (IMPACT), government representatives from all over the globe including Australia joined private sector and prominent security experts. The summit was chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi with international speakers such as Professor Howard Schmidt, former White House security advisor and former chief security officer at Microsoft and eBay. They were joined by a multitude of security experts including Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure; Dr Paul Twomey, president and chief executive officer of ICANN; Dr Vinton G. Cerf, ‘Father of the Internet’ and chief Internet evangelist at Google and Eugene Kaspersky, founder and chief executive officer of Kaspersky Lab. Australia was well-represented with officials from the Attorney-General’s office and other government bodies attending the three-day summit. According to IMPACT, the goal was to chart the future course for IMPACT as a global multilateral platform using ministerial roundtables, plenary sessions and information-sharing sessions about the latest cyber-security threats, trends and issues, such as, ‘Global Denial of Service’. According to Kaspersky, IMPACT is a unique initiative, aimed primarily at consolidating efforts against cyber-terrorism. “Like all forms of terrorism, cyber-terrorism does not recognise borders or laws, the threat of cyber-terrorism is real,” said Kaspersky. [...]
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