“The start of 2016 has seen a dramatic rise in cyber-attacks targeted at the infrastructure that run our daily lives. This included the first known power outage caused by cyber-attacks occurred in Ukraine, also a Californian hospital was effectively shut down as hackers locked staff out of its computer systems. This shift has proven that critical national infrastructure (CNI) is not immune to cyber-attacks. What has changed? Why have the stakes increased? The reasons can be summed up in three industry trends:”
Source: CNI is not immune to cyber-attacks – Infosecurity Magazine