Tonight, Sunday Nov. 8, CBS 60 Minutes presented a frightening report, “Sabotaging the System”, primarily comprising an interview of former admiral Mile McConnell by Steve Kroft. The story link has web URL here with the title “U.S. Unprepared for Cyber Attacks.”
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Hackers could bring down the electric power grid and keep it crippled for months, he warns. (Some conservative have warned that rogue terrorists could accomplish the same with an EMP attack.) It’s not clear how they could get in from the public Internet, but one problem is that US power companies get so many critical components from overseas, and the hardware is not easily replaced if sabotaged.
The report covered two major blackouts in Brazil (kept secret) in 2005 and 2007. It also covered infiltration of Pentagon systems by rogue flash drives, now banned.
The report says that one of the greatest dangers is not just the looting of individual bank accounts by hackers, but the corruption of the reconciliation system in banking, which must operate in real time immediately.
The report was a “pre 9/11 moment” with respect to cyber terror.
Then Katie Couric interviewed tennis champ Andre Agaassi, with a new memoir (“Open”), who admits now that he grew up “hating tennis” because of his father, and then sunk for a period into crystal meth before making a comeback. The segment shows his physical transformation, which was so dashing at 18, when he was already going bald and wearing a hairpiece. It seems that over the years that as he went down he lost almost all his hair, literally – catching the notice of “The Advocate” at one point.
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