As seven alien races struggle to co-exist in an uneasy alliance, the Inter-Stellar Union sends Union Guard agents on missions to preserve the crucial balance. These specialized operatives must do what regional security cannot, dealing with smugglers, pirates, terrorists, and even greater challenges in order to bring stability to a universe that needs it desperately. Without the Union Guard, the races will not be prepared to face a looming alien threat they can only hope to defeat together.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Are You Being Watched? (part 2)
In the movie, “Live Free and Die Hard,” a young hacker joins Bruce Willis to stop a cyber-terrorist who has created a “Fire Sale.” A fire sale is a cyber-attack that performs a three-stage systematic attack on a nation's computer infrastructure. Hackers call it a Fire Sale because "Everything must go." The hacker mastermind in the movie is able to first shut down our transportation systems, then disables our financial systems (banks, Wall Street, etc.), and finally our public utilities such as gas, electric, and communications. Our society becomes increasingly fragile, the more we rely on computers to run everything. Though many of these important computer systems are isolated from networks, all it takes is a single person to infiltrate the system and create havoc. We managed to access Iran's nuclear centrifuges with a single USB drive (look up “Stuxnet Virus”), so it is clear that even isolated computer systems are not safe.
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