Posted by Usman Sindhu on February 19, 2010 Just this Tuesday,
February 16th 2010, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosted a mock
cyber attack called Cyber Shockwave. The aim of this simulation
was to understand the impacts of a cyber attack and assess
infrastructure capability during such an incident. There are
many articles explaining the motive and results of this
simulation, and post mortem is still coming as we speak. So,
what did the simulation entail? It depicted a war game taking
place in 2011 – basically an application installed on smart
phones during ‘March Madness’ thatturned out to be a malware.
This hypothetical malware affected telecom and IT infrastructure
throughout the country, with the result actually bringing down
the nation’s cellular network...but there is more. According to
an article from ‘The Atlantic Wire’: “Later, two bombs disabled
the country's electricity network and destroyed gas pipelines...
Soon 60 million cellphones were dead. The Internet crashed,
finance and commerce collapsed,