Unwitting Collaborators, Part 13: The Winds of Digital War
- Introduction: Enemies at the Threshold
- A Digital Attack Scenario
- Fact or Fantasy?
- What Needs to be Done
Introduction: Enemies at the Threshold
Over the last 12 weeks we've written about the different individual ways in which cyberterrorists can infiltrate your organizationboth physically and digitallyto turn your network into a weapon for their use.
The following scenario describes how a strike team of cyberterrorists can exploit many of the security flaws detailed in our articles over the last several weeks, showing thatin the words of The Washington Post"terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed."