Source: Nick Farrell, The Inquirer.
A CYBER WARFARE EXERCISE designed by the defence industry to lobby for more cash has raised fears that the US is not ready to fight an online war.
The exercise, called “Cyber ShockWave”, was held in a Washington hotel room where participants played “the President and his advisers” to observe a simulated cyber attack featuring crashed mobile networks, the slowing of web traffic to a crawl and major cities plunged into darkness.
Former president George W Bush’s Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff played the role of National Security Advisor as the “cabinet” sought to respond to a “nightmare scenario” drawn up by former CIA director Michael Hayden.
US defence industry calls for more spending on cyber-warfare
Published: February 17, 2010