Cyber Storm - US conducts mock internet attacks

"The US government concluded its Cyber Storm wargame today, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the internet from anti-globalisation activists, underground hackers and bloggers.

"Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by internet bloggers, online diarists whose "web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events.

"The internet survived, even against fictional abuses against the world's computers.

"Experts depicted hackers who shut down electricity in 10 states, failures in vital systems for online banking and retail sales, infected discs mistakenly distributed by commercial software companies and critical flaws discovered in core internet technology ..."
Sydney Morning Herald

Lid dip to Baz le Tuff who rightly points out "Bloggers=Hackers?? WTF!"

I like this one too: Burglar checks email while robbing home

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