{"id":25936,"date":"2011-03-01T20:53:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T03:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=25936"},"modified":"2011-03-13T19:18:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:18:13","slug":"homeland-security-officials-says-malicious-hackers-a-top-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/homeland-security-officials-says-malicious-hackers-a-top-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security officials says malicious hackers a top threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cybersecurity is a potential “nightmare” for the Department of Homeland Security in the years ahead, as well as concerns about homegrown terrorists and intelligence sharing, officials said Tuesday at a seminar at Georgetown University.<\/p>\n
According to former DHS policy head,\u00a0 Stewart Baker,\u00a0 “The nightmare that the DHS has”is that a very sophisticated hacker, perhaps working for Hezbollah, manages to infiltrate our electric grid and to bring down power to a portion of the United States, not for an hour or two, but for days or weeks.<\/p>\n