Officials at the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), located at FBI headquarters here, are gathering for an emergency meeting to collect and analyze all available cyberintelligence information, said Navy Rear Adm. James Plehal, the deputy director of the NIPC. Details . . .
Officials at the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), located at FBI headquarters here, are gathering for an emergency meeting to collect and analyze all available cyberintelligence information, said Navy Rear Adm. James Plehal, the deputy director of the NIPC. Details of the meeting aren't yet available.

Meanwhile, Marv Langston, former deputy CIO at the Defense Department, viewed today's physical terrorist attacks as an act of war and warned that they could be followed by a series of cyberattacks. Asked if the airplane attacks against the Pentagon and World Trade Center could be followed by a cyberattack, Langston answered, "I would be surprised if it was not."

Meanwhile, Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISS), which operates the IT sector's Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), has placed its operations center on what it calls AlertCon 3 (the highest is AlertCon 4), "in order to focus IT security efforts on the potential for (and defense against) an Internet component to these attacks." The ISAC works in cooperation with the FBI and the NIPC in sharing information about cyberthreats.

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