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US
vulnerable to cyber-Pearl Harbour, says Panetta
Monday December 03, 2012 06:54:55 AM,
IANS
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Washington: The US
faces the possibility of a "cyber-Pearl Harbour," becoming
increasingly vulnerable to hackers who could cripple
transportation and financial networks, US Defense Secretary Leon
E. Panetta has warned.
Cyber attacks that have long caused major work disruption and
theft of private information are becoming more sophisticated, with
prolonged attacks perpetrated by organised groups.
In Sep 2012, Bank of America, Citibank, the New York Stock
Exchange, and other financial institutions were targets of cyber
attacks. The attacks lasted over five weeks.
Key to protecting online operations is a high degree of "cyber
security awareness," according to researchers Varun Dutt, Young-Suk
Ahn, and Cleotilde Gonzalez of the Dynamic Decision Making Lab (DDML)
at Carnegie Mellon University.
These researchers developed a computer model that presented 500
simulated cyber attack scenarios to gauge simulated network
security analysts' ability to detect attacks characterised as
either "impatient" (the threat occurs early in the attack) or
"patient" (the threat comes later in the attack and is not
detected promptly), according to a DDML statement.
"Application of our results include the design of training tools
that increase competency and the development of decision-support
tools that improve defenders' on-the-job performance in detecting
cyber attacks."
As cyber warfare strategies and tactics evolve, the authors plan
to further investigate the trend of drawn-out attacks and new
intrusion detection software.
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