CNN

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

Is anyone watching CNN right now? Its doing a Simulation about a Cyber Shockwave. Very interesting... and highly likely I think.

http://www.examiner.com/x-27886-Houston-Co...it-this-weekend

Edited February 22, 2010 by ~PalmTreeGurl~

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

If whats being said on the CNN Simulation "could be" true, then it would shut down phones, electricity, businesses would stop, hospitals would be out of power, banks would go down. The USA would fall in a night time...

[William33 110]

I watched a piece of that on Saturday night and now wish that I had recorded it on the DVR....I believe much of it is true though..

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

Its on CNN now, and Im kinda watching it. I can see that if something like this was to actually happen... it does make sense that the USA would be helpless.

[scandal 951]

I haven't seen the CNN piece.

I did hear this on NPR a few days ago however. It is a real threat, even if not as dramatic as a total 'lights out' scenario.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=123531188

February 10, 2010

At an intelligence briefing last month, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair warned Congress that the nation's computer networks were particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

"Malicious cyber-activity is occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication," Blair said, noting that a December security breach at Google was a "major wake up call" for U.S. officials. Every single day, Blair said, sensitive information is "stolen from both government and private sector networks" as criminals become increasingly more sophisticated.

The Internet's connectivity, says James Lewis, creates "endless opportunities for mischief." On today's Fresh Air Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the co-author of the report "Security Cyberspace in the 44th Presidency," explains how recent breaches at Google and the Department of Defense have illustrated that the United States is not yet ready to deal with a large scale cyber-attack.

Lewis says that an attack can be simple and crude: malicious software placed on a thumb drive and left in a parking lot can wreak havoc on a computer system. He predicts that within a decade, Al Qaeda will develop capabilities to carry out attacks on the web — but says that terrorists may not bring down the entire Internet because they also realize the benefits. "It's given terrorists a global presence," he says. "The possibilities are there. But everyone is going through the trade-offs."