DHS Deploys Special Teams to Battle Hackers in Cyber War for Infrastructure
Just hours before reports emerged that hackers were for the first time attempting to take over specific infrastructure plants, a former CIA director told ABC News that weaknesses in critical infrastructure systems in the U.S. were among the country's greatest threats to national security.
"One of [the greatest threats] is the vulnerability of our electricity grid to hacking and to physical attack on things like transformers," former CIA Director John Woolsey said Tuesday. "We have 18 critical infrastructures in the United States: water, food, sewage, etc. All of the 17 others depend on the electrical grid.
"So the vulnerability of that grid to things like hacking is a very serious problem," he said.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/hackers-targeting-vital-infrastructure-dhs-sends-special-teams/story?id=11320125
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