Former US officials in cyberattack simulation

Former US officials in cyberattack simulation

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former top US intelligence officials will become cyberwarriors on Tuesday in a simulation of how the US government would respond to a massive cyberattack on the United States.

"The scenario itself is secret," said Eileen McMenamin, vice president of communications for the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), which is hosting the event dubbed "Cyber ShockWave."

"The participants don't even know what it is," McMenamin told AFP. "None of them know what's going to transpire."

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"For Cyber ShockWave, a room at the Mandarin Hotel here is being transformed into the White House Situation Room, where the president and his top advisers typically meet to address national emergencies.

"We'll have all of these different screens with different information coming in," McMenamin said. "The members of the cabinet are going to have to react in real time as they would in real life."

"We'll see how they coordinate with the private sector as well," she said, as they sift through intelligence and news reports to mount a response to the "large-scale cyber crisis" and provide advise to the chief executive"



Who will be the example used for the simulation? Chinese hackers, Russian hackers, right-wing extremists? Who will be the one to made an example of?

I think this will prove to be interesting, and show vulnerabilities of America, and what people are capable off. Seems like a pretty in depth simulation.

Usually when there are simulations or tests, something bad happens in the next week or too that are just like what's simulated.

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[edit on 14-2-2010 by Phlynx]

Thread on this already
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Originally posted by bryan2006
Thread on this already
www.abovetopsecret.com...

I searched too! Lol, if a mod reads this thread, please close it.

Originally posted by Phlynx
Usually when there are simulations or tests, something bad happens in the next week or too that are just like what's simulated.
(visit the link for the full news article)

[edit on 14-2-2010 by Phlynx]

Or the same day. ;-)

Could be fun to see what happens.