Europe Simulates Total Cyber War 80
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."
Exercise FAQ (Score:4, Informative)
Re:help? (Score:5, Informative)
About 4 years later, and after Russia's done 75% of the work...
Re:cyber attacks are launched from botnets, ergo.. (Score:1, Informative)
A combination AppArmor (which has no GPU issues) and for very dangerous things a VM (which does, but can still run light to moderate 3D workloads) works a treat. The rollback button in the VM is a mere mouseclick away. My grandmother could do it, once I showed her the button. We're not talking rocket science here, or any kind of deeply complex problem that takes years of study to master. You don't even need a VM to browse safely, you just have to not run things thrust in your face. If browsers would just ship with the default of not running things unless whitelisted, most of these problems would disappear. Would most people let any stranger into their house at any time for any reason? No? Then they need to stop doing that with their computers.
The tools already exist. People just have to use them. The device is a Turing machine and the only way to stay safe is by using it in a responsible manner. We need to start expecting that, just like we expect people not to drive while drunk or barrel through a residential area at 80 MPH or haphazardly fire guns toward innocent bystanders. Social responsibility applies to the internet just like it does to real life. We have to start demanding it of people.