Sabotaging The System-60 Minutes

[Swede]

Could hackers get into the computer systems that run crucial elements of the world's infrastructure, such as the power grids, water works or even a nation's military arsenal?

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5578986n

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Let's see. Tom Clancy wrote about planes used as weapons

a decade ago. (If only Condi Rice had read something other than her press releases . . . )

The latest Die Hard movie actually makes computers and viruses exciting. Then again, killing an armed helicopter with a car did add a little to it.

[Vincardog]

2. Could those companies be paying the terrorists to run their computer systems? Outsourcers beware

[951-Riverside]

3. This "problem" can easily be solved by removing these sensitive systems from the internet and/or...

wireless/remote networks.

Why would anyone allow this sensitive systems access the internet anyway?

[Swede]

4. In the video they explained how hackers got by the best firewalls.

They leave memory sticks lying around where employees will pick them up. I am assuming that means breaking into houses etc. In the stick is a trojan. One attack let someone into the Pentagon's computer undetected for more than a day.

[RC]

5. Convenience. They can monitor from home or whatever.