PC Magazine has a short article about how hackers have been able to take control of certain power grids. It seems that several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands and the CIA is taking careful note of what happened to try and prevent it from happening within our borders.
Considering the Internet really does not have any borders, this is troubling news as the world becomes more and more computerized. Let’s hope that the sys admins who manage our vital infrastructure locations have changed their default passwords from “password” to something harder to crack than “p@ssw0rd.”