May 04, 2012
Network World
Cybercriminals have already figured out how to hack into enterprise infrastructure, and the critical infrastructure that controls our nations supply of water, gas, oil and electricity just might be next.
With so many connections and shared vulnerabilities between the two infrastructures, the inevitability of this is unsettling. If the critical infrastructure is successfully penetrated, electrical grids could be shut down, water supplies could be turned off, telecommunications channels could be severed, and transportation systems could come to a halt. Take the electrical grid offline...