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Brian4Liberty
11-01-2012, 12:46 PM
Lol! She is trying to justify her expanding budget and recover from the blatantly false story she put out about a "cyber-attack" on a US utility (that did not occur).


Napolitano: Sandy Shows What Cyber Attack on Utilities Could Look Like

The ravages of super-storm Sandy on the Northeast’s infrastructure gives an idea of what a cyber attack on our utilities could cause, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.

“If you think a control-system attack that takes down a utility even for a few hours is not serious, just look at what is happening now that Mother Nature has taken out those utilities,” she said at a cyber security conference, Politico reports. The damage can be “life threatening.”
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More:
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/napolitano-cyber-security-threat/2012/11/01/id/462364

Brian4Liberty
11-01-2012, 12:51 PM
Reminder:


DHS Issued False ‘Water Pump Hack’ Report; Called It a ‘Success’
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The revelation is buried in a lengthy report released by the Senate’s bipartisan Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which examines the many failings of state fusion centers, which were set up in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in an effort to improve intelligence collection and dissemination for state, local and federal law enforcement and counter-terrorism agencies.

The water pump hack report spawned dozens of sensational news stories when it was leaked to reporters in November 2011. The fusion center report, which was titled “Public Water District Cyber Intrusion,” was distributed by the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center on Nov. 10 and given to state and federal law enforcement agencies, utilities and other groups.
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The report was significant at the time because it represented the first known attack of this kind involving hackers breaking into an industrial control system in the U.S. and sabotaging equipment. As the Senate investigators point out in their report, earlier that year Defense Department officials had stated that the U.S. would treat such attacks on critical infrastructure systems as an act of war if they caused widespread casualties.
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“Almost no part of the initial reports of the incident had been accurate – not the fusion center report, or DHS’s own intelligence report, or its intelligence briefing,” write the Senate investigators in their report. “The only fact that they got right was that a water pump in a small illinois water district had burned out.”
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http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?393378-Your-money-down-the-drain