US black-hats come together under government exercises
An article in US News & World Report, reported on the training exercise “cyberdawn” which brought together government and non-government hackers and security experts to conduct a massive training exercise. Basically the hackers are going to try to break into systems while security experts try to stop them. There will be simulations of hacking into banking systems, power grid networks, and military systems.
This caught my eye for a few reasons. For one, they’re bringing together the military, private industry experts, and “teenage computer savants,” the article said. Sounds to me like those teenage computer savants means some teen black-hats, because come on, no teenager grows up thinking “you know what I REALLY want to do with my life? I want to work in IT/cyber-security!!” No, it’s always “I want to break into systems, steal things, and be awesome.”
So why would the military be using them in this exercise? Is it really just going to be this two-day exercise or are they trying to do some recruitment for the future cyber-warriors of America. Unfortunately, that’s highly classified and the nation’s official policy is to not talk about cyber-offense capabilities or plans. I guess we’re only allowed to bat our eyelashes and wink suggestively at plans though, so let’s all get together and give a big glaring look at other countries while not directly threatening them. Then if confronted about it, just act nice until they walk away and then flip them the bird while they aren’t looking:
“I can 0wnz ur systemz?!?”
OK seriously that’s the last lolcat i’m going to post. This is getting ridiculous.