{"id":14240,"date":"2010-08-03T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-03T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T20:46:00","slug":"computer-hackers-targeting-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/14240-computer-hackers-targeting-power-plants.html","title":{"rendered":"Computer hackers targeting power plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, cyber experts have discovered a malicious computer code that was created specifically to take over systems that control the inner workings of industrial plants.<\/p>\n<p>As much as 85 percent of critical U.S. infrastructure is owned and operated by private companies, ranging from nuclear and electric power plants to transportation and manufacturing systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security is creating new specialized teams to confront the threat.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/255664-Hackers-targeting-power-plants-and-other-critical-infrastructure\">Computer hackers<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials say computer hackers are targeting power plants and other critical infrastructure around the world in bold new efforts to seize control of operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}