Cyber attacks could cause the next world war
SalonATLANTA, Georgia — It’s a new breed of warfare, unlike anything you’ve ever seen. But US officials use phrases like “cyber-Pearl Harbor” to describe the threat hackers pose to the critical infrastructure — electricity, water, trains, oil and gas pipelines — and the information networks that run the economy. Other systems use unchanged default username and passwords like “admin/admin.” If passwords aren’t publicly available, other glaring vulnerabilities often remain, such as systems “connected to the internet that shouldn’t be; people using a workstation that handles physical control at a plant to access their,” said Junio. “SHODAN enables hackers to look for targets worldwide, in an automated way, and it’s perfectly legal.” Junio noted that during a trip to Taiwan, he discovered that more than 6,000 Taiwanese infrastructure control systems were found in SHODAN — without the government knowing this was a security problem. “Should one piece of a system fail, you end up with these cascades, sort of like a game of dominos.” “It doesn’t take anything horribly catastrophic to initiate an infrastructure disaster.
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