Re: [iwar] Statics On Cyber-terrorism.htm
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:30:08 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [iwar] Statics On Cyber-terrorism.htm
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What a poorly written and innacurate story this is...
Per the message sent by Ozair:
> http://www-cs.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/stdntppr/stats.htm
> Statics On Cyber-terrorism
...
> Who are the terrorists?
> The graphic below shows that amateur hackers are by far the biggest threat
> on the Internet at the current time. They are responsible for about 90% of
> all hacking activity.
This has nothing to do with cyber terrorism whatsoever.
> Cyber terrorism does not have to come from the average hacker or even online
> terrorists. The Govt. carried out a series of its own attacks on itself, in
> order to test its own defenses against online-based attacks. The Defense
...
How is this 'cyber terrorism' - soulds more like 'testing' to me.
Also, this is from 1993! Things have changed somewhat in the last 7 years...
> How common is unauthorized system entry?
...
> over the Internet. Another survey found that the Pentagon's systems that
> contain sensitive, but unclassified information, had been accessed via
> networks illegally 250,000 times and only 150 of the intrusions were
> detected...
The SAME 1993 study - no actual facts other than statistics behind it.
> Costs of cyber-terrorism
> According to a source in Great Britain, terrorists have gained at least up
> to 400 million pounds from 1993 to 1995 by threatening institutions. Over
> the three years, there were 40 reported threats made to banks in the U.S.
> and Britain. In January of 1993, three separate incidents took place in
> London. During the sixth, a brokerage house paid out 10 million pounds after
> receiving a threat and one of their machines crashed. On the fourteenth
> incident, a blue-chip bank paid blackmailers 12.5 million pounds after
> receiving threats. Another brokerage house paid out 10 million pounds on the
> twenty-ninth incident. Some terrorists just take money, rather than
> resorting to blackmail. A Russian hacker, for example, tapped into
> Citibank's funds transfer system and took $10 million.
Again - not 'cyber terrorism' - but rather - 'blackmail'
This is really a poorly concieved story with very old data improperly
represented.
FC
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