Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week….
"We
have information, from multiple regions outside the United States, of
cyber intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands," he
said in a statement posted to the Web on Friday by the conference’s organizers, the SANS Institute.
"In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting
multiple cities. We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but
all involved intrusions through the Internet."
I am highly suspicious – why has no one heard of this before? – but every year I do feel more and more like I’m living in a Neal Stephenson novel.
I never heard of planes being flown into buildings before but it happened. LA had a cyber attack by a disgruntled employee. Its private enterprise..
I am also suspicious.
sounds like the CIA is consulting movie plots for their intelligence. Wasn’t this the basis for the latest Die Hard movie?
After all that has happened do we still give credence to any thing that they (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) say?
edwardseco and yoshi, what I find difficult to believe is that hackers trying to extort money could have caused power outages affecting multiple cities and this would not be front page news around the world. If this has happened it is big news and not the sort of thing that can be easily covered up. Moreover, many of the security experts at the conference had never heard this before either. So I remain suspicious.
It seems to me that if this were actually possible, the Russians would have already pulled it off in their last cyber attack on the Baltic States.
Possible.
Hackers combat not the intelligence of the best security specialists but the stupidly of the most naive users, lazy administrators and bad managers.
I just hope they can write a better ending than Stephenson.
It seems that some CIA analysts have been watching Live Free or Die Hard in their free time.
“NATO’s inability to deter a cyber attack that virtually paralyzed NATO member Estonia’s access to the internet”
A nod to Cato.org..
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The internet world is so complicated. Nobody knows what will exactly happen in the visual world.
New technology is always given us surprising and life way changing.
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