On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 12:54 -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
James B. Byrne wrote:
On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote:
Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts.
Better fight with bits than blood.
Yes, but... attacks on the friggin' IoT could result in lots of blood. Or, less so, what do you mean all the rail lines have been knocked out of commission for a week, and we can't get food to the eastern half of the country? Or power?
(1) For national infrastructures, a "parallel" Internet-type communications network, totally isolated from the real Internet.
(2) Governments should educate their country's computer people to recognise vulnerabilities and how to block them; too many self-declared "komputar xperts" haven't a clue about robust security.
Query: How did the Reds get into the Democrats computer systems ? Hope it wasn't a Redhat/Centos system but an 'open Windoze' set-up.