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.
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.
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.
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.
America's critical transportation, power, and communications systems remain quite vulnerable and lack funds to remedy that.
The revelation that a computer worm disabled a safety system in a US nuclear power station in January has led to fresh calls for security on electricity grids to be overhauled. Experts say much of the grid's critical infrastructure is too accessible to the virus-ridden public internet.
Disruptions from a recent attack on the Internet are shaking popular perceptions that vital national services, including banking operations and 911 centers, are largely immune to such attacks.
Increased Internet centralization along a few telecom backbones makes the Internet more susceptible to disruption, according to an academic study.
A terrorist attack or other disaster that destroyed key telecommunications equipment in major cities would disrupt the Internet much like severe storms at airline hubs ties up the nation's air traffic, a new study suggests.
A new report from the U.S. National Research Council finds that the internet was remarkably resistent to the catastrophic damage of the September 11th attacks.