Archive for June, 2010

Boeing fighting Cyberterrorism on a massive scale

An extraordinary article caught our attention from the Chicago Tribune written by By Bill Lambrecht on June 28th that exposes the scale of the war that American defense contractors are fighting against Cyber Terrorism.

The article intimates that Boeing’s IDS logged 3,722 suspicious efforts to gain access to their systems in just one hour – which by anyone’s standards is a massive number of attacks for any organisation to deal with on a sustained basis.

The article highlights a number of important points about the attacks that are worth noting.