Homemade Cyberweapon Worries Federal Officials -- Washington TimesCapable of crippling key industrial controls.
Two security researchers, working at home in their spare time, have created a cyberweapon similar to the sophisticated Stuxnet computer worm that was discovered last year to have disrupted computer systems running Iran’s nuclear program.
The private efforts by Dillon Beresford and Brian Meixell are raising concerns among U.S. government officials that hackers will launch copycat cyber-attacks that could cripple computer controls at industrial sites such as refineries, dams and power plants.
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My Comment: These concerns are justified. The history of computers and the internet has a dark side .... viruses, hackers, criminal organizations, fraud .... I guess we should now thrown in those who may decide to develop cyber weapons that would deliberately target our crucial digital infrastructure.
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