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General Topics => Preparedness and Survival => Topic started by: Jaydawg on September 29, 2011, 04:26:33 PM

Title: Cyber attacks on utilities industries rise.
Post by: Jaydawg on September 29, 2011, 04:26:33 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/us-cyber-attacks-utilities-industries-rise-230240514.html (http://news.yahoo.com/us-cyber-attacks-utilities-industries-rise-230240514.html)

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Acting DHS Deputy Undersecretary Greg Schaffer told reporters Thursday at one of several nondescript buildings that house Control System Security Program facilities that the world's utilities and industries increasingly are becoming vulnerable as they wire their industrial machinery to the Internet.

"We are connecting equipment that has never been connected before to these global networks," Schaffer said. Disgruntled employees, hackers and perhaps foreign governments "are knocking on the doors of these systems and there have been intrusions."