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Cyber-attack: What scenario can you imagine a cyber-attack taking?
- May 18, 2010 10:50 AM |
- By POV
An unidentified police officer of the Cyber Terror Response Center under the National Police Agency walks past a board showing the international cooperation network with the Cyber Terror Response Center at the agency's headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 9, 2009. (Ahn Young-joon?associated Press)
A top secret memo written by Canada's spy agency warns that cyber-attacks on government, university and industry computers have been growing "substantially."
The heavily censored briefing note, obtained by CBC News using Canada's access to information law, outlines the increasing vulnerability of Canada's energy, financial and telecommunications systems face from cyber-attackers.
"Compromises of computer and combinations networks of the Government of Canada, Canadian universities, private companies and individual customer networks have increased substantially," says the June 2009 memo written by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
The CSIS memo highlights current concerns about cyber security.
What scenario can you imagine a cyber-attack taking? Take our poll.
A top secret memo written by Canada's spy agency warns that cyber-attacks on government, university and industry computers have been growing "substantially."
The heavily censored briefing note, obtained by CBC News using Canada's access to information law, outlines the increasing vulnerability of Canada's energy, financial and telecommunications systems face from cyber-attackers.
"Compromises of computer and combinations networks of the Government of Canada, Canadian universities, private companies and individual customer networks have increased substantially," says the June 2009 memo written by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
The CSIS memo highlights current concerns about cyber security.
What scenario can you imagine a cyber-attack taking? Take our poll.
(This poll is not scientific. It is based on readers' votes.)
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