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CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid
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| Krypton |
Anyone experience a sudden unexplained black out? This article doesn't mention which cities were affected...
| quote: | CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service Sat Jan 19, 9:00 AM ET
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.
Speaking at a conference of security professionals on Wednesday, CIA analyst Tom Donahue disclosed the recently declassified attacks while offering few specifics on what actually went wrong.
Criminals have launched online attacks that disrupted power equipment in several regions outside of the U.S., he said, without identifying the countries affected. The goal of the attacks was extortion, he said. |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/200...CdktxgADRFk24cA |
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| idoru |
| Serves them right, in my opinion. If you have the computers running a power grid hooked up to a network that, at some point, reaches the internet, then you're a moron. Same goes with any sort of "network" with vital information. If you don't want it accessed, don't make it even remotely accessible. |
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| Arbiter |
| It's likely that sudden, unexplained blackouts are pretty common in the regions where these attacks have taken place. |
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| leph555 |
forget to pay the electric bills?
blame the hackers! |
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| jonSun |
| the govt is really cutting the power themselves & blaming innocent hackers. :whip: :wtf: |
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| tubularbills |
| cloverfield monster. |
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| Yan |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
cloverfield monster. |
aka Xenu
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| quote: | Originally posted by Jansa
tom cruise |
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| iammesol |
| Live Free Or Die Hard |
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