SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past four years, foreign hackers have stolen source code and blueprints to the oil and water pipelines and power grid of the United States, and have infiltrated the Department of Energy’s networks 150 times.
What’s stopping them from shutting us down?
The phrase “cyber-Pearl Harbor” first appeared in the 1990s. For 20 years, policymakers have predicted catastrophic situations in which hackers blow up oil pipelines, contaminate the water supply, open the nation’s floodgates and send airplanes on collision courses by hacking air traffic control systems.
“They could, for example, derail passenger trains or, even more dangerous, derail trains loaded with lethal chemicals,” former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned in 2012. “They could contaminate the water supply in major cities, or shut down the power grid across large parts of the country.” For the full article click here
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