[VOIPSEC] U.S. not ready for cyber attack

[Alex Eckelberry]

There are some valid points here, but a lot of it is overblown hysteria.
Incidentally, I think if you talk to people in Estonia, the situation
over there was also way overblown in the media. 

The good news for vendors is that "billions of dollars" is being
proposed to upgrade infrastructure. 

Alex



-----Original Message-----
From: voipsec-bounces at voipsa.org [mailto:voipsec-bounces at voipsa.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Thermos
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:03 PM
To: voptalk at vopsecurity.org; voipsec at voipsa.org
Subject: [VOIPSEC] U.S. not ready for cyber attack

For those that haven't seen this.

I'm not sure there is additional information or a report that has been
published but the story paints a bleak picture.

"...Dire consequences of a successful attack could include failure of
banking or national electrical systems..."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNewsMolt/idUKTRE4BI00520081219

It will be interesting to find out what scenarios were exercised against
telecom networks.

Peter


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