Critical Infrastructure


An Energy Pearl Harbor? -- Gal Luft  -- Washington Post  -- March 5, 2006
Energy

The recently foiled terrorist strike at an oil-processing plant in Saudia Arabia highlights al Qaeda's long-term strategy of attacking the global energy infrastructure.

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Virtually Unprotected -- Staff  -- New York Times  -- June 2, 2005
Information Warfare

Experts have long warned that the nation's power, transportation and communications systems are vulnerable to "cyberattacks" that could devastate the economy and cause huge damage to life and property. Now a new government report has concluded that far too little is being done to close these gaps.

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Loopholes Seen in U.S. Efforts to Secure Ports -- Eric Lipton  -- New York Times  -- May 25, 2005
Surveillance Technology

The Department of Homeland Security's effort to extend its antiterrorism campaign overseas by enlisting help from importers and foreign ports has been so flawed that the program may have made it easier at times to smuggle unconventional weapons into the United States, Congressional officials say.

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Bush prepares for possible shutdown of GPS network in national crisis -- Ted Bidris  -- San Francisco Chronicle  -- December 15, 2004
Global Positioning System

President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology.

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Sprawling systems teeter on IT chaos -- Duncan Graham-Rowe  -- New Scientist  -- November 27, 2004
Metacomputing

The UK government has initiated a research program
aimed at finding ways to avert catastrophic software failures in critical IT networks like healthcare or banking systems.

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Experts Say Control Systems Vulnerable -- Juan A. Lozano  -- Washington Post  -- October 5, 2004
Information Warfare

Businesses and government agencies must re-examine the growing threat of cyberterrorism to automated computer systems running power grids, dams and other industrial facilities, according to security experts.

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Cyber-nightmare -- Robert Lenzner and Nathan Vardi  -- Forbes  -- September 20, 2004
Information Warfare

Four years ago al Qaeda operatives were taking flying lessons. Today they are honing a new skill: hacking. How much damage could a cyberterrorist do to an electric grid or the Internet? We don't know yet.

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Hacker attack left port in chaos -- Rebecca Allison  -- Guardian  -- October 7, 2003
Hackers

A teenage hacker launched an attack on a chatroom user that brought chaos to America's busiest seaport in what police believe to be the first electronic attack to disable a critical part of a country's infrastructure.

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Apocalypse Soon? -- John Horvath  -- Telepolis  -- September 29, 2003
Space Debris

The author argues that the western world's reliance on a "weak and dilapidated energy and communications network infrastructures" is a recipe for disaster.

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If These Networks Get Hacked, Beware -- Alex Salkever  -- Business Week  -- September 16, 2003
Information Warfare

America's critical transportation, power, and communications systems remain quite vulnerable and lack funds to remedy that.

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