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Speech given to the Cyberlog conference July 2010 Collinsville, Il.
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Editor's Notes
- Lets look at some of the more notable battles in this theater
- 1982 Russian pipeline control system virus attack that caused a major natural gas explosion Picture = trojan horse inserted into the control system, supervisory control and data acquisition systems of the pipeline
- Carefully controlled and hit all these military installations across the US
- Telephone switching computers Financial institutions Media and press Web sites
- Israeli jets were undetected by Syrian radar and were able to enter and nearly level this installation
- Highly controlled Highly targeted at 30 particular domains Long-lasting effort over several days shows coordination and purposeful Highly deniable and hard to assign source yet Korean language source was easily discoverable
- Had a data breach and had to disconnect from the Internet Clean each PC one at a time manully
- China allows Google to operate and redirect to google.hk Facebook, Twitter and You Tube are still blocked by China Mobile phones use competitive searches that are self-censored
- China has finally surpassed the US in terms of the sheer number of Internet users in the past few years.
- High ‘Net dependency Critical infrastructure is all online (power, pipelines, railroads, airlines) Most of these systems are controlled by private industry and unregulated R&D labs are all wide open to attack Most PCs have paper-thin defenses And then there is our forces…
- US military is more wired but also more dependent now on private contractors for its support, and this can be vulnerable to attackers
- Lets take a look at some of these vulnerabilities
- Most of us think that the China firewall to keep Chinese under control, but it also can stop malware and attackers from entry too! N. Korean July 4 th exercise was not to harm us, but to better protect themselves Quick disconnect in case of attack
- Lieberman has a bill to create an “Internet Kill Switch” in the hopes that we ca quickly disconnect in case of an attack.
- Level 3 link map – how hard would it be to turn this off? Again, because we have so many connections, hard to just use a single kill switch
- In China, their power grid is still mostly under manual control, an advantage during a cyber war
- Modern Ford-class carriers that are being built for the Navy – how many microprocessors are on this vessel, and how many different IP addressable devices?
- Is there anyone who knew about two years ago when this first surfaced? These are machines that are returned from lease, with hard drives full of confidential documents
- When the Obama transition team users complained about having locked-down Mac laptops when they tried to access public Wifi networks, Clarke “tried to quietly point out that if you are a senior member of the informal national security transition team, you probably should not be planning the takeover of the White House from a Starbucks.”
- At least the VPN can encrypt traffic to and from remote users
- Use whole disk encryption software and endpoint security tools so that if stolen or compromised, they will remain safe and contents not available
- Why has encrypted email taken so long to implement? Mostly because we are lazy.
- Passwords not on Post-its!
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