Cyber Security: Organized crime hackers true threat to U.S. infrastructure

Earlier this month, a U.S. metropolitan utility suffered a massive DDoS attack that resulted in shutting down online and telephone payment services for 48 hours. The attackers responsible were not merely interested in causing mischief; rather, they were hardened criminals looking to make money by selling intellectual property and extorting their victims. Rentable crimeware and the ability to go undetected for months or years is bringing huge threats to American infrastructure with targeted cyber attacks, costing victims an estimated $110 billion a year, according to Symantec.

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