Cyber War: Sabotaging the System
60 Minutes: Former Chief of National Intelligence Says U.S. Unprepared for Cyber Attacks
Font size PrintE-mailShare16 Comments Page 1 of 6.Like this Story? Share it:
Share On Facebook 0
diggs
digg ..
Play CBS Video
Video
Cyber War
Could foreign hackers get into the computer systems that run crucial elements of the world's infrastructure, such as the power grids, water works or even a nation's military arsenal, to create havoc? They already have. Steve Kroft reports.
.
Video
Web Extra: Hacking the ATMs
Former State Department official Jim Lewis with extreme--and illegal--examples of getting money from an ATM.
.
Video
Web Extra: Hacking the D.O.D.
Jim Lewis is a former State Department official who directed a major study on cyber security for President Obama.
.
(CBS)
.(CBS) This segment was first broadcast on Nov. 8, 2009. It was updated on June 10, 2010.
Nothing has ever changed the world as quickly as the Internet has. Less than a decade ago, "60 Minutes" went to the Pentagon to do a story on something called information warfare, or cyber war as some people called it then. It involved using computers and the Internet as weapons.
Much of it was still theory, but we were told that before too long it might be possible for a hacker with a computer to disable critical infrastructure in a major city and disrupt essential services, to steal millions of dollars from banks all over the world, infiltrate defense systems, extort millions from public companies, and even sabotage our weapons systems.
Today it's not only possible, all of that has actually happened, plus a lot more we don't even know about.
It's why President Obama has made cyber war defense a top national priority and why, as we first reported in November, some people are already saying that the next big war is less likely to begin with a bang than a blackout
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/10/60minutes/main6568387.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CBSNewsInvestigates+%28CBS+News+Investigates%29 My son did his social studies project on this and how reliant we as a country are on computers. It really is scary to think what would happen if our systems were to go down.
Linkback: http://4seasonschat.com/index.php/topic,15092.msg164611.html#msg164611
Topic: This is what I have been saying all along (Read 114 times)