According to Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, the blackout was confirmed by the CIA senior analyst, Tom Donahue. This was made official at a security conference that took place in New Orleans, which gathered international government officials, engineers, and security managers from North American energy companies and utilities.

Having looked at part 1 of the 10 highest security threats for 2008, we've seen the predicted attacks of botnets, cyber espionage and web site attacks . Part 2 shows the risks of Mobile Phone threats, insider attacks, spyware and advanced identity theft. This is Part 3 of the 10 High Impact Cyber Security Threats in 2008 series.

Attacks on VoIP systems are expected to flow in 2008. VoIP phones and the IP PBXs have made themselves even more vulnerable by having their previous vulnerabilities published. As a consequence, one can easily find attack tools used to exploit these vulnerabilities on the Internet. In brief, the VoIP vulnerable area is quite large. This is Part 2 of the 10 High Impact Cyber Security Threats in 2008 series.

Twelve cyber security experts, with considerable knowledge and an impressive background about potential attack patterns, joined their efforts to come up with a list of the most probable and the most serious attacks that lie in wait for 2008.

The porn industry is fighting not to lose the trust of its customers because a recent Internet security breach may put consumers of online pornography in defense. Those who over the few months have registered in secret on Web sites with sexual content may shockingly discover that some of their personal data such as e-mail addresses may be out in the open now.