Ted Koppel discusses the inevitable cyberattack on U.S. infrastructure

Ted Koppel, anchor of ABC TV’s “Nightline” for 25 years, from 1980-2005, is the author of “Lights Out,” which argues that not only is the nation’s critical infrastructure at grave risk of a catastrophic cyber attack that could leave as much as a third of the nation without electricity for months or even a year, but that there is no government plan to respond to such an attack.

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Koppel spoke briefly with CSO earlier last week about those issues:

What kind of feedback on your book are you getting from information security professionals? Do they think you’ve overstated the risk or not?

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