Threats From Everywhere in 'Cyber Storm'

January 31, 2008 By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer Trains, Bloggers Are Threats in US Drill (AP)

With the Capitol in the background, left, a Washington Metro train makes its way toward Union Station in Washington in this March 25, 2001, file photo. Here's what the Bush administration considers a really bad day: Washington's metro trains shut down. Seaport computers go dark. Bloggers reveal secret locations of railcars with hazardous materials. Control towers are disrupted at airports in Philadelphia and Chicago. A mysterious liquid is found on London's subway. Planes fly too close to the White House. Water utilities in Los Angeles are compromised. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

(AP) -- In the middle of the biggest-ever "Cyber Storm" war game to test the nation's hacker defenses, someone quietly targeted the very computers used to conduct the exercise.



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