SCADA Watch: Hackers May Threaten Economy
A Newshouse News Service article by Garry Lenton, via The Houston Chronicle, reports that:
In the action movie Live Free or Die Hard, Bruce Willis' character, John McClane, battles leap-frogging villains, launches cars into helicopters and regularly defies the laws of physics, all to stop a madman trying to take over government computer systems.More here.
But could a hacker really take control of a vital computer system and sabotage it?
It already has been done, and thousands of attempts occur every day.
In October 2006, a virus was slipped into the computer system at a Pennsylvania water filtration plant. Though the future of the free world did not hang in the balance — the incident was relatively minor and caused no damage or threat — it drew the attention of computer security experts nationwide because it wasn't supposed to happen.
posted by Fergie @ 12/27/2007 09:53:00 AM
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