Cyberterrorism that could make 9/11 pale in comparison

[DontSayBanana]

We must harden our cyber defenses at any cost.

Also, this has been an issue for over 15 years and will be an issue for another 15.

I'd mostly be concerned about watching for social engineering attacks.  Hell, Iran's centrifuges had a literal physical drawbridge between themselves and the Internet, and they still managed to catch Stuxnet by sheer dint of at least one stupid employee with a flash drive.

[Warspite]

Something doesn't add up in that article. Given there are 1,008 hours in a six-week period, websites being down for 249 hours would be closer to 25% downtime than 2%, right? Am I missing some vital piece of information?

Incidentally, considering bank websites to be down for "hours at a time" as warfare really is watering down the term.

[Neil]

It was written by a journalist.  Math and logic aren't their strong suits.

[Eddie Teach]

Maybe the 249 hour figure is a combined total and the individual sites were only down 2 pct of the time.