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Unwitting Collaborators, Part 13: The Winds of Digital War

This frankly terrifying scenario describes exactly how cyberterrorists can cause catastrophic damage and cost thousands of lives - without the need for guns, bombs, or even airplanes.
Read the introduction to this article series.
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Introduction: Enemies at the Threshold

Over the last 12 weeks we've written about the different individual ways in which cyberterrorists can infiltrate your organization—both physically and digitally—to turn your network into a weapon for their use.

The following scenario describes how a strike team of cyberterrorists can exploit many of the security flaws detailed in our articles over the last several weeks, showing that—in the words of The Washington Post—"terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed."

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