Folks don't talk about this threat as much. Think about the online systems involved in every aspect of your life - banking, health care, stocks, etc. Brrr.
'Cybergeddon' fear stalks US: FBI
via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 1/6/09Computer attacks pose the biggest risk "from a national security perspective, other than a weapon of mass destruction or a bomb in one of our major cities," says Shawn Henry, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division. Henry said that terrorist groups are working to create a virtual 9/11, "inflicting the same kind of damage on our country, on all our countries, on all our networks, as they did in 2001 by flying planes into buildings." (Source: http://www.physorg.com/news150486206.html)
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