Counter intelligence service, net

[tits]

Two years ago, I watched a show on the Discovery Channel concerning the subject. They said that several centers exist that monitor the web. They also said that any given day the Pentagon, DOD, and White House is challenged with up to 130,000 probes. That within a few days of 9/11 one attack on the Pentagon had over 235,000 probes within 30 minutes.
tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/articles/cyberterror.html

Is there really a way to monitor the billions of web transitions and exchanges that occur each day?

Is there really a way to cripple the Pentagon or US Government with a cyber attack?

[Sailor]

tits said:

Two years ago, I watched a show on the Discovery Channel concerning the subject. They said that several centers exist that monitor the web. They also said that any given day the Pentagon, DOD, and White House is challenged with up to 130,000 probes. That within a few days of 9/11 one attack on the Pentagon had over 235,000 probes within 30 minutes.
tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/articles/cyberterror.html

Wow!

Is there really a way to monitor the billions of web transitions and exchanges that occur each day?

Is there really a way to cripple the Pentagon or US Government with a cyber attack?

Using past experience as a point to judge from I'd have to say "Yes" to both Dave.

If any agency in the world has the capability to monitor the web and all the other myriad electronic communications in the world, I'd have to say the National Security Agency (NSA) would be the most likely.

And as we have seen in the past, any data system - either government or civil - connected to outside communications is vulnerable to attack no matter how well protected. There is no such thing as a perfect defense, especially against cyber attack - unless you make the system totally stand alone.