The Katrina line is also in the bill: (6) Paul Kurtz, a Partner and chief operating officer of Good Harbor Consulting as well as a senior advisor to the Obama Transition Team for cybersecurity, recently stated that the United States is unprepared to respond to a ''cyber-Katrina'' and that ''a massive cyber disruption could have a cascading, long-term impact without adequate co-ordination between government and the private sector.''
Perhaps "recently" means he said it on April 1. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Michael Collins [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 6:25 PM To: Paul M. Moriarty Cc: Larry Seltzer; funsec Subject: Re: [funsec] cyber-9/11 I preferred it when we called it an "Electronic Pearl Harbor". I also swore I saw someone call it a Cyber-Katrina last week. So many metaphors, so little time. On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Paul M. Moriarty wrote: > Blow up peering points? > > Wait, I got it: Rent 100's of backhoes across the country. Dig in. > > - Paul - > > > On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Larry Seltzer wrote: > >> From the just-introduced Rockefeller-Snowe bill (U.S. Senate S.773) >> (http://www.infracritical.com/papers/cybersec4.pdf >> ): >> >> 2(10) According to the National Journal, Mike McConnell, the former >> Director of National Intelligence, told President Bush in May 2007 >> that if the 9/11 attackers had chosen computers instead of airplanes >> as their weapons and had waged a massive assault on a U.S. bank, the >> economic consequences would have been ''an order of magnitude >> greater'' than those cased by the physical attack on the World Trade >> Center. Mike McConnell has subsequently referred to cybersecurity as >> the ''soft underbelly of this country.'' >> >> I read this and I have to ask, basically, WTF does this mean? On top >> of it not being within the capabilities of Al Qaeda to do such a >> thing, I have to wonder what they could really have done. >> >> Larry Seltzer >> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor >> http://security.eweek.com/ >> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ >> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
