You know a topic has suddenly gone mainstream when 60 Minutes directs its in-depth lens on it. Last night the CBS News show aired a piece called Sabotaging the System, which takes a look at the very real threat that cyber hackers pose on the power grid. What struck me most from the show was that there are actually already quite a few documented cases of damage done to the power grid using IT networks.
One of the most famous, points out 60 Minutes, happened at the Department of Energy’s Idaho lab back in 2007. Dubbed the “Aurora” project, CNN released this video (shown above) that year and now thanks to YouTube we can watch it over and over again on the Internets.
