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Why you can no longer put off prepping for hacks and takedowns of ALL U.S. infrastructure

• http://www.naturalnews.com, by: JD Heyes

For four days they meet to discuss and demonstrate the latest techniques they've discovered (and likely used) to essentially disrupt as much of modern society as possible.

In the digital, wired, Internet-connected age, in a single room, at a single convention, lies the fate of modern societies everywhere.

The event is called "Black Hat," and it just concluded last week. This year's event drew about 16,000 hackers and information security experts from all over the world, as lawmakers, policymakers, defense experts, financial institutions, power companies and other infrastructure managers lie awake at night trying to figure out how to defend modern IT systems from these folks.

Hackers routinely come to the Black Hat convention to demonstrate how to break into electronic systems embedded in medical devices, ATMs, cars, routers and mobile phones. This year, at the 20th annual gathering, one security researcher walked attendees through a hack of a wind farm.


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