Monday November 9, 2015

I've Been Thinking:

ISIS has hacked in to 54,000 twitter accounts. Most of the accounts belonged to the CIA, to CentCom (Central Military Command) and to the FBI.

The hackers sent out messages on the hacked accounts supporting ISIS activity. People who owned the accounts looked on, powerless, as their twitter feeds pounded out tweets glorifying the actions of ISIS.

The Cyber Caliphate claimed responsibility. They posted a video explaining their message. The video showed a still Cyber Caliphate person with their symbol and there was a computer muffled voice reading the following statement:

"Praise to Allah, today we extend on the land and in the internet. We send this message to America and Europe. We are the hackers of the Islamic State and the electronic war has not yet begun."

"What you have seen is just a preface of the future. We are able until this moment to hack the website of the American leadership and the website of the Australian airport and many other websites."

We know exactly who founded the Cyber Caliphate. We have a very good sense of those who support it and those who are involved. They are a very capable bunch.

These pro-ISIS hackers have the ability to cause damage on a large scale. I would estimate that even at this stage they could successfully attack a nation and its infrastructure - water, energy (especially electricity) and even communication grids. They could certainly hit small and medium size cities anywhere across the Western world. Large cities would just be slightly more difficult.

It may sound like a sci-fi movie, but this is real.

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