Tuesday, October 19, 2010

cyber attack threat next pearl harbor

Head of British Intelligence and Security Committee Sir Malcom Rivkind warns of cyberthreat, infiltrating industrial systems, "...to interrupt the National Grid to prevent proper instructions going to power stations, which are under computer control," in article "Cyber attack threat 'could be next Pearl Harbor'" at Telegraph.co.uk. Rivkind relates fear of very senior American intelligence figure, "...cyberattacks...were to be United States' next Pearl Harbor". October declared National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Internet, as we know it, lives on borrowed time!

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