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Cyber Storm Blew Through Holes in Canadian Security

A Canadian Press article by Jennifer Ditchburn, via The Globe and Mail, reports that:

An anti-hacker exercise that simulated the leak of social insurance numbers, an aviation control meltdown and tampering with government websites wound up exposing serious weaknesses in how Canada responds to emergencies.

The simulation, called Cyber Storm, took place over five days last February and involved four other countries, including the United States. The drill was designed to see how countries would react, individually and together, to attacks on their critical computer infrastructure by hackers, disgruntled employees, or even anti-globalization activists.

One of the main findings by senior officials, spelled out in newly released documents, was that the Canadian government's National Emergency Response System (NERS) is still just a “concept” three years after it was first initiated.

posted by Fergie @ 4/08/2007 02:54:00 PM