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guardian.co.uk - 4/17/2009

'No one is ready for this'

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A few years ago, the idea of hackers bringing the world to the brink of catastrophe was just a fun Hollywood plotline. Now, cyber-attacks are on the rise and Nato's top computer experts have gathered in a military base in Estonia to prepare cyberwar defences Back in 1983, the world was a ...

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Velcro City Tourist Board — ... their government, as operators of the GhostNet," says the IWF report. The problem is that all of these things are happening in China anyway. Henderson says that patriotic hacking has been a mainstay of the Chinese hacking underground since the mid-90s. " Tagged with: China • cybercrime • ghostnet • web • espionage • inflitration • new-southsea • hacking • Bobbie Johnson visits Nato’s cyberdefence HQ in Estonia to find out about the battle against ...

How NATO Has Prepared For Cyberwar [CyberWar]
io9 — ... could have global consequences... Cyber-attacks are very efficient. You don't have to fly to the country you're attacking, you don't need a cell somewhere. All you need is a connection. What happens if your country gets targeted by 25,000 well-equipped, well-trained people who work to achieve the same goal? No country is ready for that. Yes, that's the kind of thing I want to see our security experts saying. Oh God. We're all headed for cyber apocalypse. 'No one is ready for this' [Guardian.co.uk] ...