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CYBER

Why There’s No Need to Panic About a ‘Cyber 9/11’

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of CYBER, we spoke to Robert Lee, a former NSA analyst and infrastructure hacking expert, about the state of critical infrastructure, the threats it faces, and why there's still no need to panic.

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0:00.0

Tannen.

0:02.0

It's got the code. It's going to launch.

0:09.0

It's a unit system.

0:13.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle won.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:24.9

For years, U.S. officials have been sounding the alarm about an impending catastrophic

0:29.3

cyber attack, an enemy strike damaging or destroying real-life infrastructure and causing

0:34.5

real harm without using any traditional weapons, just computers.

0:40.0

Some like then-defense secretary Leon Panetta invoked a little World War II hyperbole to

0:45.3

sell the threat.

0:46.0

The collective result of these kinds of attacks could be a cyber Pearl Harbor.

0:54.6

Others preferred a more recent example.

0:56.8

Is a Cyber 9-11, is a Cyber Pearl Harbor within the realm of possibility?

1:01.9

So I think a Cyber 9-11 could take all of these different sort of areas of impact,

1:08.0

but amplify them over and over and over again.

1:10.3

Look, we're really facing a potential cyber 9-11 or cyber Pearl Harbor.

1:15.6

Despite this alarmist rhetoric, there's actually not that many examples that have happened

1:19.3

recently.

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