Critical infrastructure often under cyberattack

Computer systems that run the world's critical infrastructure are not as secure as they should be and insiders are mad. That's according to a new survey released Monday that asked management, network engineers, and administrators in nine infrastructure industries about the state of cybersecurity in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Insiders felt that all of these industries, save financial services, were unprepared for cyberattacks. These unready industries included: water, utilities, oil and gas, telecommunications, transportation, emergency services, chemicals, and the shipping industry. And that's bad news because more than half of them said that their companies had already been hit with some sort of cyberincident, data leak, or insider attack. Another 14 percent said they were expecting something like this to happen in the next year.