(Source: Mass Transit Magazine, December 17, 2019)
NEW YORK — American railroads currently face the greatest threat to their critical safety systems in history: cyberattacks. Rail critical infrastructure in America has been subject to a spate of cyberattacks, with severity and incidence increasing daily. The importance of the railroads to America’s economy, the potential for damage on a transcontinental scale to both freight and passenger traffic and the vulnerability of the entire rail system to a dispersed attack are all making the railroads an increasingly attractive target for hackers and cybercriminals.
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