Hacker Quote by Ted Koppel

“the extreme vulnerability of SCADA systems to cyber sabotage was first demonstrated, and dramatically so, during the administration of George W. Bush.”

— Ted Koppel

“In early March 2015 the Government Accountability Office issued a report warning that the air traffic control system is vulnerable to cyberattack.”

— Ted Koppel

“Would-be hackers, operating on what is sometimes referred to as the “Sneakernet,” can introduce their malware, their viral programs, by way of an employee’s…

— Ted Koppel

“Russia, China, and Iran, among others, continue on an almost daily basis to demonstrate a range of cyber capabilities in espionage, denial-of-service attacks, and…

— Ted Koppel

“James Woolsey argued that protection of the national electric grid against an EMP attack is possible, that it is not prohibitively expensive, and that…

— Ted Koppel

“SCADA systems were, for the most part, designed and installed before the notion of cyberattacks had even occurred to anyone. The Internet itself was…

— Ted Koppel

“Countries such as Iran and North Korea (of which more in the next chapter) cannot hope to match the United States in their ability…

— Ted Koppel

“The reconnaissance required to understand the system sufficiently to compromise it can take years, challenging the skills of even the most cyber-competent nation-states. We’ll…

— Ted Koppel

Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories,…

— Ted Koppel

“two-thirds of companies across a spectrum of industries didn’t realize they had been breached until someone outside the company informed them.”

— Ted Koppel

“He is convinced that China and Russia have already penetrated the U.S. power grid, both for purposes of reconnaissance and, very likely, in order…

— Ted Koppel

“With adversaries’ malware in the National Grid, the nation has little or no chance of withstanding a major cyberattack on the North American electrical…

— Ted Koppel