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Cyber-Attack: Is This A Test?
Nov 1, 2022, 10:58 AM
In mid-February 2013 hackers attacked a MAJOR Jacksonville utility, bringing their website to a screeching halt for over 100,000 customers. Why would anybody want to do a thing like that?
First Coast News Reporter Ken Amaro talked to Dr. Wally Eaton, Florida State College Professor of Computer Engineering Technology and a renowned expert in cyber security, to find out what--if not who--was behind the Denial-of-Service attack on JEA, what risks consumers might be at, and anything users could do to prevent unwittingly becoming part of a network aimed at wreaking havoc on a very large scale. First Coast News, WJXX/WTLV, 6 p.m., Feb. 19, 2013.