I liked this better the first time, when it was Die Hard 4. (h/t: Michelle Malkin)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers literally turned out the lights in multiple cities after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, a senior CIA analyst told utility engineers at a trade conference.
All the break-ins occurred outside the United States, said senior CIA analyst Tom Donahue. The U.S. government believes some of the hackers had inside knowledge to cause the outages. Donahue did not specify what countries were affected, when the outages occurred or how long the outages lasted. He said they happened in “several regions outside the United States.”
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The Bush administration is increasingly worried about the little-understood risks from hackers to the specialized electronic equipment that operates power, water and chemical plants.
In a test last year, the Homeland Security Department produced a video showing commands quietly triggered by simulated hackers having such a violent reaction that an enormous generator shudders as it flies apart and belches black-and-white smoke.
Pardon me if our Open Border Gotta-Have-Illegal-Labor Homeland Security Department doesn’t instill me with much hope at first blush in being prepared to combat things like this. Remember that the Chinese have a massive hacker branch of their military ready to go while we can’t even keep the Ws on our White House keyboards…
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