Cyber Command Completes First Major Attack Simulation
USCYBERCOM has said that its first major attack simulation exceeded expectations.
The United States Cyber Command hasn't been around for long. In fact, it only reached full operational capability last October. However, things seem to be trundling along quite nicely over as USCYBERCOM, as the command just recently completed its first major attack simulation.
InformationWeek reports that the mock attack, dubbed Cyber Flag, took place over the space of a week at the Air Force Red Flag Facility at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. All told, 300 people participated in the simulation (both on site and off), which involved splitting into two teams, the "good guys" and the "bad guys." The bad guys spent their time throwing everything they had at the Cyber Command's networks, attempting infiltration with malware and other nasty tricks. For their part, the good guys did everything they could to defend the network.
Col. Rivers J. Johnson of the command's public affairs office told InformationWeek that while the Cyber Command was not 100 percent successful in fending off all of the attacks, the majority of threats were identified and deflected "in a timely manner."
"There were a variety of scenarios based on what we think an adversary would do in real world events and real world time," he's quoted as saying. "It was a great exercise."

Wow there was some crazy pictures on your machine!
I'd laugh my ass off if someone there tried it, lo good one.
Wow there was some crazy pictures on your machine!
Oh wait, no wonder my credit card charges went through the roof..
Also unlike with a simulation where you know what is happening because things are set up. In real life, you generally wont know when the network has been compromised. (many of the best security firms have been hacked, and malicious users having full or nearly full access for months or years).
If you are attacking a remote server, if your goal is not denial of service, then the moment your attack has been detected, it has failed (unless you already know their complete network map as well as all of the exploitable software running ahead of time and only need to quickly get a single small file)
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This is like the pitcher and the umpire are father and son....
rofl, thats how you do it kobayashi maru style.
It's a good experience, albeit extremely stressful.
I wonder why everyone is so paranoid and live in fear all the time?
Who the hell would want to take their Military secrets? Wiki already has them all.
And why would any idiot want to attack the US , die hard style? it was simple enough with the planes..., the banks, and the oil why it'd be pretty simple to coax the president itself again with a multi billion dollar election campaign package.
Really, and the best part of it is, all the strategic networks ought to be off the internet, just simple LANs and WANs. Reduce stupid spending and provide better housing and employment to your citizens would be a better option.
Security..... that's a laugh.
Spending on it..... is like Halliburton contracts.
And then testing them..... is like 911, fooling the people to believe what is and what is not, when they are all aware of what is the actual state of the states affairs, and I don't mean the Monica Lewinsky affairs.
"There were a variety of scenarios based on what we think an adversary would do in real world events and real world time," he's quoted as saying. "It was a great exercise." "
The Col. still uses the Win 3.1 Word Processor for all his PR reporting.
"Majority in a timely manner"..... was that the time before the got into the systems or were getting out of the systems? or was it after they came, they and they..... you royally.
There can't be real world events in the cyber world..... dumbass. this is not a virtual reality war game.
"It was a great exercise" only if you learnt what a waste of time it was.