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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Addressing Canada’s REAL Threat to Critical Infrastructure
Tyler Williams
Special to the Sun
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
The federal government’s plans to roll out a national strategy this summer to protect “critical infrastructure” systems such as oil and gas pipelines, power plants, telecommunications networks, water supplies and banking from attacks either by hackers or terrorists highlight a growing security issue in our country.
While the threat of attack by suicide bombers requires physical transportation to the pipeline or power plant here in Canada (and so may be less imminent), the cyber-security threat to these infrastructure systems is urgent because it can be mounted via the Internet from ...
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