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60 Minutes: Sabotaging The System

November 9th, 2009


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2 Responses to “60 Minutes: Sabotaging The System”

  1. Dennis Says:
    November 10th, 2009 at 4:21 am

    The mention of corrupted USB drives being used to provide access to the Centcom computers reminded me of PROMIS software’s backdoor capabilities.

  2. JC Denton Says:
    November 10th, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online
    Brazilian Blackout Traced to Sooty Insulators, Not Hackers

    http://www.wired.com/threatlev....._blackout/

    To me, the most interesting part of the 60 minutes video was the 30 second clip with the guy who talked about the real threat not coming from an all-out attack, but a more insidious corruption of data over time. It would be much more effective to minorly fuck up transactions in such a way that went unnoticed, possibly long enough to make it into the backup tapes and have a cumulative effect over time. Like on the stock exchange, its easy to shut the whole thing down but impossible to unwind trades once they’ve already happened.

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