TEXT 3. THE WORLD’S FIVE BIGGEST CYBERTHREATS
Speech of Eugene Kaspersky at the conference "Counter Terror Expo",
London, April 25, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17846185
blog.kaspersky.com
PRE-READING
Activity 1. What kind of computer threats for Internet users do you know? Mind map your answers and present them to the class.
At the conference "Counter Terror Expo" in London Eugene Kaspersky, founder and chief executive of Russian computer security firm Kaspersky Lab, described the five most dangerous computer threats faced by Internet users.
Complete darkness
The first threat is cyber warfare – exactly what Stuxnet was about, which in 2010 attacked Iran's nuclear infrastructure. I am seriously worried about the future of our world. This could one day happen on a much bigger scale. For example, entire nations could be plunged into darkness if cyber-criminals decided to target power plants. And there is nothing anyone could do about it. It is possible that a computer worm doesn't find its exact victim – and since many power plants are designed in a similar way and often use the same systems, all of them could be attacked, around the world. If it happens, we would be taken 200 years back, to the pre-electricity era.
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