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>> dan coats once said that what kept him up at night was the rumored russian ability to turn off the power in new england in the middle of winter. tell the folks watching tonight at the risk of scaring them to death before bed on a friday evening, how bad could it get? what could someone do? >> it could get very bad. you know, granted this report in "the new york times" was about very rudimentary things, right? about spearfishing, people cook clicking on the wrong link and downloading malware i...

Their computer. thats the first step in going after turning off a hydro electric plan or turning off a substation and plunging a million people into dark know. these are infrastructure attacks which are very hard to do because we have such a large civilian infrastructure not protected at a governmental level the way many other countries around the world are. when you turn off power, you kill people. respirators go off until the batteries come on. or until generators come. on it can be very diffi...

You know, e-mails that called actresses spoiled brats or revealed the salaries of studio executive, which have all been embarrassing to sony, the real significance of this attack was it was the first one on american soil in a long while that appeared to be state sponsored and was destructive. in other words, it wiped clean those computers. those are called infrastructure attacks. weve only seen a couple in recent history. there was an attack attributed to iran, so did saudi arabia, there was an ...

Actresses spoiled brats or revealed the salaries of studio executive, which have all been embarrassing to sony, the real significance of this attack was it was the first one on american soil in a long while that appeared to be state sponsored and was destructive. in other words, it wiped clean those computers. those are called infrastructure attacks. weve only seen a couple in recent history. there was an attack attributed to iran, so did saudi arabia, there was an attack from north korea with g...

Executive, which have all been embarrassing to sony, the real significance of this attack was it was the first one on american soil in a long while that appeared to be state sponsored and was destructive. in other words, it wiped clean those computers. those are called infrastructure attacks. weve only seen a couple in recent history. there was an attack attributed to iran, so did saudi arabia, there was an attack from north korea with great similarities to the sony attack that hit banks in sout...