Unleashing The Dogs Of Cyberwar On Iraq!

from the not-so-difficult dept

Brian McWilliams who seems to spend half his time hacking into middle-eastern computer systems. He's the guy who made headlinges for supposedly "hacking" into "Saddam's email account" - which wasn't actually anyone's email account, and McWilliams just guessed the username and password (which were incredibly easy). He's also the guy who made even more headlines for faking out a ComputerWorld reporter into believing he was a a middle-eastern hacker who released the Slammer Worm. His latest bit of "investigative journalism" is to take it upon himself to figure out Iraq's cyberdefense weaknesses. He determined that they're actually getting all of their internet access via two satellite systems, which send all Iraqi internet traffic either through Atlanta, Georgia or Rugby, Warwickshire in the UK. It's not so surprising that he also determined most of their software is out of date and not well patched. What I'm wondering is why anyone would really care that much? The amount of internet usage in Iraq is clearly very low. A "cyber attack" wouldn't serve much purpose. But, I guess, it still makes headlines.

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