[WMCoolmon]

At least, once they can get their power grid and other utilities back online.

They even have a fancy acronym for it, too: "SACDA".

[Rictor]

I dunno, "cyber-attacks" sounds awfully sensationalized. I think the threat of 1337 haXXors is vastly exagerated in the minds of ordinary folks. The article says these people may have had inside knowledge, in which case it would be rather easy to disable utilities.

The most serious case of "cyber terrorism" that I can recall to date was when a bunch of Russian hackers defaced websites owned by the Estonian government. IIRC, the damage was almost purely psychological.

[IceFire]

...or the Transformers movie.

But honestly...when did this happen.  Next question...was this done by remote link from these services to the Internet at large or was this truly an inside job and someone had to gain some sort of physical access to a local network to start the attack.  If the utilities primary systems are somehow linked out the greater Internet that is the stupidest idea I can think of in terms of placing such a powerful thing in such a vulnerable position.

[Ashrak]

I dunno, "cyber-attacks" sounds awfully sensationalized. I think the threat of 1337 haXXors is vastly exagerated in the minds of ordinary folks. The article says these people may have had inside knowledge, in which case it would be rather easy to disable utilities.

The most serious case of "cyber terrorism" that I can recall to date was when a bunch of Russian hackers defaced websites owned by the Estonian government. IIRC, the damage was almost purely psychological.

it was purely logical, they used really odd weapons though, what it did was shut down network interfaces, without actually shutting em down, so no packet traffic was moving, but nothing was actually wrong either in the eyes of the nics

[Flipside]

Sorry, but it just sounds like beating on the 'fear' drum to me. They give no details other than 'it did happen, honest!'. Seems like it's just more attempts to angle at more control over the Internets.