Cyber terrorists have a number of ways to mount a major cyber attack on U.S. Internet infrastructure due to the general instability of its base, the director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)
“With decades of IT infrastructure built to support changing technologies, there is little ability to baseline the entire infrastructure within the United States,” said Randy Vickers, , in an interview Wednesday. “This variety of platforms and applications provides many possible vectors by which to attack infrastructure.”
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