Establishing stronger cyber security must become a top national imperative, according to industry and government cyber security specialists at a recent FAA/Air Traffic Control Association Technical Symposium in Atlantic City who described–in understandably guarded terms–the general approach certain government and industry organizations are taking.
Teenagers have routinely broken into highly protected computer systems at the DOD, NASA and CIA, not to mention even more ominous sounding places such as the U.S. Navy’s Air Warfare Weapons Center, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and have reportedly even attempted to break into a South Korean nuclear facility.
Whenever such incidents become public, government mouthpieces immediately assure us that they posed no threat to national security. Largely, that’s probably true, since most teen hackers want to attack a high-profile target for the same reason mountaineers climb Mount Everest: because it’s there.
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