Ghost Town In Alabama: Just imagine, a city where there are shining roads, traffic signals, petrol pumps for vehicles, luxurious houses and hotels, hospitals for the treatment of patients, but not a single person lives in this entire city. Shocked. At first glance, this ‘ghostly’ city actually looks like a set of a horror movie. American intelligence agency The FBI has a very secret and high-tech masterplan. On this fake city built in Huntsville, Alabama FBI Has wasted billions of rupees. But why? Let us know the complete inside story behind this unique city.
This is not an ordinary place, but a world spread over 22,000 square feet, which has been designed exactly like a small town in America. The FBI has designated this ‘ghost’ city as a Kinetic Cyber Range (Kinetic Cyber Range) is named. The purpose behind making it is not to house ghosts, but to scare away the vicious hackers of the world. Actually, this is such a playground of FBI, where agents leave the theory of closed rooms and get training to deal with live cyber attacks.
Why was there a need to spend billions?
In today’s era, cyber attack is no less than a third world war. According to the recent cyber crime report of FBI, the loss caused by cyber crime in America has crossed $ 20.9 billion (about Rs 2 lakh crore). It is increasing by a huge 26 percent every year. Hospitals, power grids and banks are the targets of hackers. To deal with this, the intelligence agency has prepared this dummy town.
What is there in this fake city?
In this fake city, everything from traffic lights to hospital ventilator machines and petrol pumps is real, and connected to the internet. During training, trainers suddenly shut down the power grid of the hospital or hack the traffic signal. After this, there is pressure on the trainee agents to recover the system without panicking like in the real life world.Also read: Salary Rs 2.2 lakh, but zero savings! You will be shocked after seeing the budget of this Mumbai couple.
Deliberately created ‘hell’ like environment
To provide a real challenge to the trainee agents, a huge data center with more than 200 physical servers has been built within this city. But instead of making it comfortable, it has been made extremely cold, cramped and full of deafening noise. Program managers say that when a big company is hacked, the environment in its server room is just as miserable and stressful. We want our agents to be mentally prepared for these difficult situations. Also read: You will be shocked to know the price of the medicine which was priced at Rs 94,000 in the US in India; American woman’s story went viral
More than 1,400 ‘cyber warriors’ ready so far
According to TechCrunch report, how successful this project is can be gauged from the fact that more than 1,400 cyber warriors have been trained so far. The practical training here is proving to be a game changer in breaking the toughest security locks of hackers. Also read: The faint of heart should not watch! The last hair-raising video of Yemen’s famous ‘Spider-Man’ goes viral
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