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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 11:34 AM EDT |
A big problem also, is not software, but infrastructure. Someone mentioned a
building in New York. Here in Britain we have LINX and MINX. Two strategically
placed bombs, and all of a sudden Britain is isolated from the Internet!
Or the company that carefully arranged redundant connection via two different
providers, only to get cut off when a JCB dug up a cable conduit and took out
BOTH providers' cables.
Etc etc. If you want to cause havoc, you're going to do it in the physical
world, and taking out the digital world is easy as an intentional side effect.
Cheers,
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| Authored by: globularity on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 04:36 PM EDT |
I have long argued for air walls, the amount of holes which get poked in routing
tables by users as soon as a physical connection between networks exists is
scary. The other problem is that network changes or upgrades on a non critical
network propagate to a critical network and take it down, I have seen this
happen a few times.
IMHO biggest threat to security is system administrators and clueless management
wanting convenience over security.
AFAIK stuxnet spread using autorun, I was around when floppy disk viruses were
big and at that time a feature like autorun would have been a virus writers
dream, I started disabling this in 1997. Even though it was a written by a well
resourced organisation it only had limited effect.
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