In a recent annual review, a team at the Department of Homeland Security that works to counter the threat of cyber attack on critical infrastructure counted 198 “incidents” in FY 2012, according to a report from the New York Times.
The “incidents” reported range from the use of malware to sabotage systems to phishing attacks for retrieving sensitive information. In about 40 percent of those cases, the target was the energy sector – a cause for some alarm.