We noticed this gem via Slashdot: Measuring China‘s Cyberwar Threat. It followed a similar entry from John Robb’s Global Guerrillas blog call You don‘t need a cyber attack to take down the north american power grid. We agree with John and take issue with the premise supported by the Network World article and the work it pointed at.
First, and probably most important, Symas Corporation’s Web site was the subject of several PHP code injections that eventually took our site down. We were “hacked” and “hacked off.” The hacks cost us a person week of recovery and we still haven’t recovered all the blog data that’s stuck in a couple of MySQL databases we haven’t decoded yet.
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