CyberSecurity and CyberTerrorism

[Dillinger]

Howard Schultz, the US president's advisor on cybersecurity said, "By 2009, there will be over 2 billion Internet-enabled devices, each with an IP address, in the US alone, and 6 billion altogether." The devices will include not just computers, but also traffic lights, elevators, appliances, and even pacemakers, he said. "The routing tables of the future will be unmanageable; there will be slowdowns and failures, and malicious and criminal activity between 2002 and 2009 all mean the Internet quits working," Schmidt warned. There's a lot of work to do to help assure this prophecy doesn't happen.

Additionally cyberterrorism attacks are widely expected. Experts say the companies most likely to be targeted are global icons, companies which service critical infrastructure grids and those with a major presence in Israel and India.

Well - one thing I don't have to worry about is job security. Of course I won't be sleeping for the next 10 years either.

 

[SINthysist]

Charles R. Smith has been doing a lot in a column called CyberWar. The Chinese plan to presage any operations against Taiwan with an Internet attack, have even practiced it. Not to mention all the Indian and Pakistani programmers.

Whose to say?

Maybe the Muslim Bomb will be virtual...

 

[sunstruck]

It was inevitable. Anything that becomes vital to communication and economy will become a target for terroism. That's what they do.