President Obama On Cybersecurity
In the July 19, 2012 edition of The Wall Street Journal, President Obama wrote about cybersecurity. The President wrote: ... foreign governments, criminal syndicates and lone individuals are probing our financial, energy and public safety systems every day. Last year, a water plant in Texas disconnected its control system from the Internet after a hacker posted pictures of the facility's internal controls. More recently, hackers penetrated the networks of companies that operate our natural-gas pipelines. Computer systems in critical sectors of our economy—including the nuclear and chemical industries—are being increasingly targeted. He observed: Nuclear power plants must have fences and [...]