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Thursday
Dec012011

"America's critical infrastructure security response system is broken"

As reported by NetworkWorld, a "[p]ossible cyberattack on SCADA [supervisory control and data acquisition] system at small Illinois water plant highlights weakness in U.S. system of 'Fusion Centers'."

Atomic reactors and other nuclear facilities across the U.S., and in other countries, are very vulnerable to cyber-attacks that could release catastrophic amounts of hazardous radioactivity.