Comments on: Legal Risk of Cyber Outage

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:27:07 +0000

ohwilleke
It can be both a DoD and DHS issue!

By: ohwilleke

ohwilleke — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:05:59 +0000

Wouldn’t this be a Homeland Security issues rather than a DOD issue?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:59:55 +0000

Chaimss
The Airforce got ahead of themselves on establishing a cyber command. At one point we had four being established and Sec Gates said enough and gave the planning and overall control to U.S. Strategic Command.

By: Chaimss

Chaimss — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:08:07 +0000

My biggest question is why the AFCoS just downgraded Cyber Command to an NAF when it obviously needs to be seen as a greater responsibility.

By: Ptsfp

Ptsfp — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:54:22 +0000

Yes, I truly believe it will take a major incident before companies, especially utilities, think seriously about cyber security.
I have worked in the oil and gas industry and cyber terrorism is talked about as much as executives taking voluntary pay decreases…
In the early 90’s many telecomm systems and even a dam were compromised by a hacker. He was known for his persistence, spending endless hours attacking again and again until he compromised a system, and then he moved on. He could have caused a lot of damage if he wanted to. The FBI finally caught up with him and found that he was a 20ish year old kid who had mental issues. I don’t even think they brought charges against him, due to his mental condition and the FBI’s fear of the public response.