U.S. stages massive mock Internet attack

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ASSOCIATED PRESS - February 10, 2006 - WASHINGTON - <br>
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The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers <!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;">and bloggers.</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br>
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Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>government officials and industry executives to respond to</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-size:medium;">deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events.</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br>
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The Internet survived, even against fictional abuses against the world's computers on a scale typical for Fox's popular "24" television series. <br>
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Experts depicted hackers who shut down electricity in 10 states, failures in vital systems for online banking and retail sales, infected discs mistakenly distributed by commercial software companies and critical flaws discovered in core Internet technology.<br>
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Some mock attacks were aimed at causing a "significant cyber disruption" that could seriously damage energy, transportation and health care industries and undermine public confidence, said George Foresman, an undersecretary at the Homeland Security Department.<br>
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There was no impact on the real Internet during the weeklong exercise. <!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-size:medium;">Government officials from the United States, Canada, Australia and England and executives from Microsoft, Cisco, Verisign and others</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--> said they were careful to simulate attacks only using isolated computers, working from basement offices at <!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-size:medium;">the Secret Services headquarters</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--> in downtown Washington.<br>
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<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The Homeland Security Department promised a full report on results from the exercise by summer...</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>
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