http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/07/22/whale-yacht022.html
"Whale" attacks are a seriously underestimated physical security threat. Very few companies have business continuity plans addressing this threat. Security management has not yet properly produced policy template documents addressing the issue. Access control of the Cape waters is not properly dealing with the matter. Sailboats and other small craft are broadcasting their locations without encrypting the information, so whales (and sharks) are able to intercept the data. A properly constituted security architecture would prevent such issues. (The original "Whale" was one of the earliest polymorphic viruses, creating a few dozen variants.) Our undersea cable communications infrastructure is definitely vulnerable to these creatures. Operations personnel do not have proper incident response training for these events. And what are the legal and jurisdictional issues of South African whales attacking ships of other nations? ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] The World Youth Congress was the greatest thing that ever happened [to Ghana], so I was surprised to learn [later] that it was a CIA front. I may be the only person you will ever meet who is indebted to the CIA. - Stephen Lewis victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ 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.
