"Stuxnet malware is blueprint for computer attacks on U.S."

[birther truther tenther]

Read the ENTIRE article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/01/AR2010100106981.html


The following are quotes I extracted from that above link:

"Quite honestly you've got a blueprint now," said Michael J. Assante, former chief security officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, an industry body that sets standards to ensure the electricity supply. "A copycat may decide to emulate it, maybe to cause a pressure valve to open or close at the wrong time. You could cause damage, and the damage could be catastrophic."

Joe Weiss, an industrial control system security specialist and managing partner at Applied Control Solutions in Cupertino, Calif., said "the really scary part" about Stuxnet is its ability to determine what "physical process it wants to blow up." Said Weiss: "What this is is essentially a cyber weapon."

Sean McGurk, director of the U.S. National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center at the Department of Homeland Security, said that the department posted its first report to industry recommending steps to mitigate the effects of Stuxnet on July 15. But "not even two days later," he said, a hacker Web site posted the code so that others could use it to exploit the vulnerabilities in Microsoft.

Several weeks ago, a control system monitoring pressure in a natural gas pipeline in San Bruno, Calif., malfunctioned, resulting in an explosion and fire that killed eight people.

"This is what you could do unintentionally," said Weiss, the industrial control system security specialist. "Think about Stuxnet, where you could start doing things intentionally."

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[birther truther tenther]

"Quite honestly you've got a blueprint now," said Michael J. Assante, former chief security officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, an industry body that sets standards to ensure the electricity supply. "A copycat may decide to emulate it, maybe to cause a pressure valve to open or close at the wrong time. You could cause damage, and the damage could be catastrophic."

The following press release retrieved from:
http://www.nerc.com/fileUploads/File/PressReleases/PR_Cyberstorm3%2030%20Sep%2010.pdf



NERC Participates in DHS Exercise, Cyberstorm III

WASHINGTON, DC – The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) participated in the Department of Homeland Security’s three-day exercise, Cyberstorm III. The exercise simulated a large-scale cyber attack on critical infrastructure across the Nation.
The goal of the exercise, which takes place every two years, is to examine and strengthen the Nation’s collective cyber preparedness and response capabilities. Participants included representatives from seven Cabinet-level departments; 11 States; 12 international partners; and 60 private sector companies.
Prior to the exercise, NERC served on DHS’ scenario-planning development team, which began more than a year ago. The team developed nearly 2,000 scenario injections resembling elements of a cyber attack. NERC had members embedded in the control cell, the communications cell and in various other capacities for the duration of the exercise.
“NERC was pleased to participate in Cyberstorm III – both in the planning and in the execution,” said Mark Weatherford, vice president and chief security officer at NERC. “Exercises like Cyber Storm III, allow the government and private sector to build better communication and identify areas where we can improve the security posture of the electricity industry.”
Within NERC, the Emergency Incident Response Plan was enacted and procedures were followed throughout the exercise. The Electric Sector-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ES-ISAC) collected data from multiple entities, evaluated the scope of impact to the bulk power system and issued alerts as needed to share information and offer recommendations to prevent widespread issues. The scenario was designed to challenge utilities at multiple locations to test backup procedures.
NERC, through the ES-ISAC, coordinated with multiple electric entities, Canadian partners and agencies, including United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), and the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), as well as DHS’ National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCIC).
NERC will review actions taken during the exercise and work with DHS to compile lessons learned from all participants.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s mission is to ensure the reliability of the North American bulk power system. NERC is the electric reliability organization (ERO) certified by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to establish and enforce reliability standards for the bulk-power system. NERC develops and enforces reliability standards; assesses adequacy annually; monitors the bulk power system; and educates, trains and certifies industry personnel. Learn more at www.nerc.com.


My commentary:

"Is this real-world or exercise?"

[citizenx]

Hey kiddies, don't try this at home.

Methinks they protest to much -- or not enough.

Get ready for the "copycat" wave.

[Dig]

They are running version 3 of this drill RIGHT NOW!

CYBER STORM I

2006

Pentagon Runs Military Drill where:
Energy utilities, Transportation, Communications are attacked by anti-globalization hackers
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Journalists_bloggers_are_threats_in_terror_0131.html
Associated Press Published: Thursday January 31, 2008

10-10-10
101010101010
[NOTE: Notice the 1's and 0's in the logo?]

It's the government's idea of a really bad day: Washington's Metro trains shut down. Seaport computers in New York go dark. Bloggers reveal locations of railcars with hazardous materials. Airport control towers are disrupted in Philadelphia and Chicago. Overseas, a mysterious liquid is found on London's subway.



And that's just for starters.

Those incidents were among dozens of detailed, mock disasters confronting officials rapid-fire in the U.S. government's biggest-ever "Cyber Storm" war game, according to hundreds of pages of heavily censored files obtained by The Associated Press. The Homeland Security Department ran the exercise to test the nation's hacker defenses, with help from the State Department, Pentagon, Justice Department, CIA, National Security Agency and others.



The laundry list of fictional catastrophes which include hundreds of people on "No Fly" lists suddenly arriving at airport ticket counters is significant because it suggests what kind of real-world trouble keeps people in the White House awake at night.

Imagined villains include hackers, bloggers and even reporters. After mock electronic attacks overwhelmed computers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an unspecified "major news network" airing reports about the attackers refused to reveal its sources to the government. Other simulated reporters were duped into spreading "believable but misleading" information that worsened fallout by confusing the public and financial markets, according to the government's files. The $3 million, invitation-only war game simulated what the U.S. described as plausible attacks over five days in February 2006 against the technology industry, transportation lines and energy utilities by anti-globalization hackers. The government is organizing another multimillion-dollar war game, Cyber Storm 2, to take place in early March. "They point out where your expectations of your capabilities may be overstated," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the AP. "They may reveal to you things you haven't thought about. It's a good way of testing that you're going to do the job the way you think you were. It's the difference between doing drills and doing a scrimmage." The AP obtained the Cyber Storm internal records nearly two years after it requested them under the Freedom of Information Act. The government censored most of the 328 pages it turned over, marked "For Official Use Only," citing rules preventing the disclosure of sensitive information. "Definitely a challenging scenario," said Scott C. Algeier, who runs a cyber-defense group for leading technology companies, the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center. For the participants including government officials from the United States, England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and executives from leading technology and transportation companies the mock disasters came fast and furious: Hacker break-ins at an airline; stolen commercial software blueprints; problems with satellite navigation systems; trouble with police radios in Montana; school closures in Washington, Miami and New York; computer failures at border checkpoints.

The incidents were divided among categories: computer attacks, physical attacks or psychological operations.

"We want to stress these players," said Jeffrey Wright, the former Cyber Storm director for the Homeland Security Department. "None of the players took 100 percent of the correct, right actions. If they had, we wouldn't have done our job as planners." How did they do? Reviews were mixed. Companies and governments worked successfully in some cases. But key players didn't understand the role of the premier U.S. organization responsible for fending off major cyber attacks, called the National Cyber Response Coordination Group, and it didn't have enough technical experts.



Also, the sheer number of mock attacks complicated defensive efforts. The little-known Cyber Response group, headed by the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, represents the largest U.S. government departments including law enforcement and intelligence agencies and is the principal organization for responding to cyber attacks and recovering from them. The exercise had no impact on the real Internet. Officials said they were careful to simulate attacks only using isolated computers, working from basement offices at the Secret Service's headquarters in downtown Washington.



However, the government's files hint at a tantalizing mystery: In the middle of the war game, someone quietly attacked the very computers used to conduct the exercise. Perplexed organizers traced the incident to overzealous players and sent everyone an urgent e-mail marked "IMPORTANT!" reminding them not to probe or attack the game computers.



"Any time you get a group of (information technology) experts together, there's always a desire, 'Let's show them what we can do,'" said George Foresman, a former senior Homeland Security official who oversaw Cyber Storm. "Whether its intent was embarrassment or a prank, we had to temper the enthusiasm of the players."

This video is from The Associated Press, broadcast January 31, 2008.


http://www.rawprint.com/media/2008/0802/ap_bloggers_cyberstorm_threat_080131a.flv

CYBERSTORM I
THIS IS A DRILL
THIS IS A FALSE FLAG OPERATION IN THE MAKING
JUST LIKE WHEN THEY RAN DRILLS OF A PLANE HITTING THE PENTAGON

[Pentagon crash drill, Oct. 24-26, 2000]
THIS IS LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD FIRE SALE
WILL FULL PENTAGON AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT THESE ATTACK ON THE US POPULATION
HOW INSANE ARE THESE PSYCHOPATHS?

SCENARIOS THE PENTAGON IS CREATING IN CYBER STORM I

Imagined villains include hackers, bloggers and even reporters. After mock electronic attacks overwhelmed computers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an unspecified "major news network" airing reports about the attackers refused to reveal its sources to the government.

Other simulated reporters were duped into spreading "believable but misleading" information that worsened fallout by confusing the public and financial markets, according to the government's files.

The $3 million, invitation-only war game simulated what the U.S. described as plausible attacks over five days in February 2006 against the technology industry, transportation lines and energy utilities by anti-globalization hackers. The government is organizing another multimillion-dollar war game, Cyber Storm 2, to take place in early March. "They point out where your expectations of your capabilities may be overstated," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the AP. "They may reveal to you things you haven't thought about. It's a good way of testing that you're going to do the job the way you think you were. It's the difference between doing drills and doing a scrimmage." The AP obtained the Cyber Storm internal records nearly two years after it requested them under the Freedom of Information Act. The government censored most of the 328 pages it turned over, marked "For Official Use Only," citing rules preventing the disclosure of sensitive information. "Definitely a challenging scenario," said Scott C. Algeier, who runs a cyber-defense group for leading technology companies, the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center. For the participants including government officials from the United States, England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and executives from leading technology and transportation companies the mock disasters came fast and furious: Hacker break-ins at an airline; stolen commercial software blueprints; problems with satellite navigation systems; trouble with police radios in Montana; school closures in Washington, Miami and New York; computer failures at border checkpoints.


Why is the US government running multimillion dollar, multi-national, and multi-thousands of personnel drills to set up the blaming of people who believe in protecting the United States government in the face of international attacks on our financial security? Why are they conditioning the Secret Service and the highest levels of our military to view people who are protecting the sovereignty of the United States of America as the enemy? This is fricking bizarro world!

More on Cyber Storm I:

http://current.com/entertainment/88830245_government-plays-cyber-storm-war-game-to-test-nations-defenses.htm
http://cryptome.org/cyberstorm.pdf
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/prep_cyberstormreport_sep06.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/303
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Feds-Deem-Operation-Cyber-Storm-a-Success/
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-08-825

Cyber Storm II: http://fcw.com/articles/2008/02/29/cyber-storm-ii-stirring.aspx

http://www.blacklistednews.com/?news_id=10719

This is the image of their drill "logo"...notice any 1's or 0's?

10-10-10
101010101010

I can see the narratives already from Robert Gates, Def Sec: "Well you know we cannot monitor and control every 1 and every 0 with the present budget and all of the FREEDOMS that people still think they have a right to."

October 10, 2010
10-10-2010
10-10-10
101010
101010

IT IS BINARY, THEY WANT TO DO SOMETHING SO WE ARE ALL REMINDED THAT EVEN ONE KEYSTROKE OF BINARY CODE MEANS YOU ARE A TERRORIST! This is illuminati 101 just like 911, the emergency number. Now they own the term 911. So they want to own all binary code. Where have we seen 101010 like wallpaper all over? Maybe the Rockefeller Foundation Report for Social  Conflict?

But to all the nutcase Bilderbergers and Trilateral Terrorists...no one is going to believe your bullshit anymore. Abort your insane plans, just stop terrorizing everyone. Why the hell hasn't DHS issued an alert for 10-10-10 knowing about the green nazi video with the exploding children mentioning 10-10-10 as their rally date?

What happened before 9/11? What is this all about?

U.S. Military Lowered Its Computer Security Level the Night Before 9/11/2001
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=187584.0

[Dig]

US Cyber Command approved for launch in...
October

http://www.neowin.net/news/us-cyber-command-approved-for-launch-in-october
Tzvi Friedman
24 May 2010 - 19:42

In June 2009, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved an initiative to start Cyber Command, a subdivision of U.S. Strategic Command that would be responsible for the defense and coordination of all the computer networks under military command. General Keith Alexander is heading up the operation, and his Senate approval for the position is what has been delaying the process. Now, reports Cnet, the order to launch is official, and Cyber Command will open its doors October 1st, 2010. It will manage 15,000 networks in 4,000 military bases in 88 countries, and is seen as a vital and necessary overhaul of the military's offensive and defensive capabilities in the arena of cyber warfare. In other words, this isn't going to be the military's IT department and helpdesk. The headquarters, located in Fort Meade, MD, will employ 1,000 people dedicated to enforcing digital boundries.

However good this may be for the military, there are numerous hurdles that have yet to be cleared. Many of them involve the nature of 'cyber warfare' in general, and the jurisdiction Cyber Command has when interagency operations overlap. What is considered a cyber-crime? What is considered an appropriate response to cyber-crime? How will we effectively coordiate our policies with international law? These, and many other legal issues, are wrinkles that are being, and will continue to be, ironed out as the division grows and matures.

Much like the ground forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have had to adapt to changing warfare environments, namely the tactical shift to confusing and cramped urban jungles, CyberCom understands that their biggest threats aren't going to come from the big guns. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn III has been spearheading and supporting CyberCom from its beginnings. He echoes the idea that the combat and policy philosophy at CyberCom will be very different than at other agencies.

"It doesn't take the resources of a nation state to launch cyberwar. Nations still have the best capabilities, but you can do very threatening and damaging things with modest investments...Our ability to predict where the threats are coming [from], even in conventional threats, is remarkably poor. We didn't see Desert Storm coming. We didn't see the series of events that led to Afghanistan. Foreseeing the threats in cyberspace is harder. With Cyber Command, I think we need to be prepared for the unexpected."

[trailhound]

holy shit they are going to cause mayhem in the name of 'anti globalists'....rat bastards!

[birther truther tenther]

Holy smokes!

The following took me no effort to find whatsoever!  I googled "Applied Control Solutions" which was the consulting group mentioned in the Washington Post article that began this thread.  Right on their homepage is all of their affiliations with aspects of the cybersecurity agenda that Anti_Illuminati has been exposing for years.

Welcome to Applied Control Solutions

Providing strategic consulting to optimize and secure Industrial Control Systems (ICSs)

Applied Control Solutions personnel have provided more than 30 years of ICS leadership

    * “Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Electronic Threats”, April 2010 preorder URL http://www.momentumpress.net/books/protecting-industrial-control-systems-electronic-threats
    * Provided more than 100 presentations, 10 short courses, and book chapter (Electric Power Substations Engineering) on ICS security
    * Developed 2 IEEE Expert Now! courses on ICS Cyber Security
    * Prepared White Paper on ICS Security for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Blue Ribbon Panel for the 44th President
    * Provided testimony to five congressional committees and input to various government agencies
    * Performing numerous ICS cyber security risk and vulnerability assessments
    * Compiled ICS cyber incident database with more than 170 ICS incidents
    * Supported MITRE and NIST to extend NIST standards to include ICS
    * Supporting Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for nuclear plant cyber security
    * Supporting ICS cyber security organizations including IEEE, ISA, IEC, CIGRE, NERC CSSWG, NERC HILF, and Smart Grid
    * Working with ICS and IT security suppliers
    * Host annual ICS Cyber Security Conference
    * Two patents on control and instrumentation systems

Book - Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Electronic Threats ISBN 9781606501979

Their About Us has interesting links:
http://realtimeacs.com/?page_id=13

List of Events that are upcoming, or they recently participated in:
http://realtimeacs.com/?page_id=12

[Dig]

William Lynn III:

"...We didn't see Desert Storm coming. We didn't see the series of events that led to Afghanistan. Foreseeing the threats in cyberspace is harder. With Cyber Command, I think we need to be prepared for the unexpected."

MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY


EVIDENCE OF PSYCHOSIS: Deputy Secretary of Defense is a Raytheon Lobbyist and a psychotic maniac!
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=185006.0

[Dig]

Holy smokes!

The following took me no effort to find whatsoever!  I googled "Applied Control Solutions" which was the consulting group mentioned in the Washington Post article that began this thread.  Right on their homepage is all of their affiliations with aspects of the cybersecurity agenda that Anti_Illuminati has been exposing for years.


Their About Us has interesting links:
http://realtimeacs.com/?page_id=13

List of Events that are upcoming, or they recently participated in:
http://realtimeacs.com/?page_id=12

Yup, he has been exposing these f-ers for years now...



Concept came after he exposed the UAV crap on NCIS:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=138944.0