Thursday, January 31, 2008

404 Error - Internet cannot be found

Because apparently no one in the Mediterranean knows where the utilities are buried, a single anchor may have taken out Internet service to about half of the world. That half being Asia, Africa and most of the Middle East. India's bandwidth will probably rerouted, but the world should expect delays and losses for at least a week. I'm sure that the U.S. government hadn't accounted for that when they ran their recent "Cyber Storm" simulation in February 2006. One of the consequences of this little game was the feds need do a better job of educating businesses and organizations about the role of the National Cyber Response Coordination Group and giving it more resources. They're repeating the exercise in March. This time around at least they'll have a real-world scenario to work from.

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