Europe Simulates Total Cyber War

Tutter writes with this quote from the BBC: "The first-ever cross-European simulation of an all out cyber attack was planned to test how well nations cope as the attacks slow connections. The simulation steadily reduced access to critical services to gauge how nations react. The exercise also tested how nations work together to avoid a complete shut-down of international links. Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for the digital agenda, said the exercise was designed to test preparedness and was an 'important first step towards working together to combat potential online threats to essential infrastructure.' The exercise is intended to help expose short-comings in existing procedures for combating attacks. As the attacks escalated, cyber security centers had to find ever more ways to route traffic through to key services and sites. The exercise also tested if communication channels, set up to help spread the word about attacks, were robust in the face of a developing threat and if the information shared over them was relevant."

ISPs in my country

[TheLink]

So that explains it now.

The ISPs in my country have obviously been preparing us for years of cyberwar.

Shall we play a game?

[CityZen]

Love to. How about Global Cyber Internet War?

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[Anonymous Coward]

I think you replied to the wrong post.

Might want to check on that.

Europe simulates total cyber war

[David Gerard]

WEB 0.1, Cyberspice, Saturday (NTN) — The European Union has run a simulated "cyber attack," in which simulated outsourcing companies strike mortal blows upon national budgets [newstechnica.com] for consulting fees for "cyber security" while still using Windows.

The simulation steadily reduced access to critical services to gauge how nations react, removing access to working email, letting loose old viruses and charging €300 callout fees to look at why you can't log in.

Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for the digital agenda, said the exercise was intended to help expose short-comings in existing procedures for combating attacks on funding. "It is an important first step towards working together to combat potential online threats to essential infrastructure and the consulting fees therefrom."

The exercise also tested how nations work together to avoid a complete shut-down of international links when internet service providers charge £50/month for a "super-fast" connection with a 20GB bandwidth cap.

The exercise was overseen by bouncing new baby quango the European Network Security Agency. "We considered just bombing Redmond, Washington from orbit, which simulations showed would have pretty much solved all attacks over the network itself," said Dr Udo Helmbrecht, most recently of outsourcing firm EDS Capita Goatse. "But we're not so silly as to put ourselves out of a job."