US NAVY: Hackers 'Jumping The Air Gap' Would 'Disrupt The World Balance Of Power' -- Geoffrey Ingersoll, Business Insider
The next generation hackers may be taking to sound waves, and the Navy is understandably spooked.
Speaking at last week's Defense One conference, retired Capt. Mark Hagerott cited recent reports about sonic computer viruses as one way that hackers could "jump the air gap" and target systems that are not connected to the Internet.
"If you take a cybernetic view of what's happening [in the Navy], right now our approach is unplug it or don't use a thumb drive," Hagerott said. But if hackers "are able to jump the air gap, we are talking about fleets coming to a stop."
For a long time the thought was that an air gap (systems that are not connected to the Internet) rendered networks pretty much impenetrable.
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My Comment: This type of cyber attack appears far-fetched to me .... more science fiction than reality .... but the US Navy is clearly worried.
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I concur that level of cyber hacking let alone cyberwarfare has yet to have been achieved and it's something that won't happen anytime soon.
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