And here I thought all that came out of this was a bunch of noise to drown out the signal of a REAL attack.  There WAS no attack; no OPFOR; just a case study designed to dup law makers into further invasion of our privacy.

Half an hour into an emergency meeting of a mock National Security Council, the attorney general declared: “We don’t have the authority in this nation as a government to quarantine people’s cellphones.”

The White House cyber coordinator was “shocked” and asserted: “If we don’t have the authority, the attorney general ought to find it.”

via War game reveals U.S. lacks cyber-crisis skills [WashingtonPost.com]

Cyber Shockwave posed two scenarios. In the first, a March Madness mobile application spread malware from cell phone to cell phone. In the second, the U.S. electricity grid crashed for reasons not immediately known.

The event recreated a White House Situation Room where the president's advisers reacted to the cyber attack in real time. It also created a fake news agency, GNN, to provide news updates about what was happening as a result of the attack.

Some of the difficulties officials faced when dealing with the malware attack was how to stop a worm that spreading via people's personal property, as there is no law mandating how to protect the security of mobile phones, McMenamin said.

UMMM, YEA, I THINK THERE IS AND IT SAYS YOU CAN’T WITHOUT A WARRANT OR MY PERMISSION – AND THAT’S THE AMERICAN WAY.

via Cyberattack Drill Shows U.S. Unprepared — Government — InformationWeek.