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Cyber Briefings 'scare The Bejeezus' Out Of Ceos


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Government cyberdefense lab

Cybersecurity analysts during the first tour of the government's secretive cyberdefense lab intended to protect the nation's power, water and chemical plants, electrical grid, and other facilities, Sept. 29, 2011, Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Credit: Mark J. Terrill/AP

For the CEOs of companies such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard, talk of cyberweapons and cyberwar could have been abstract. But at a classified security briefing in spring 2010, it suddenly became quite real.

From National Public Radio
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