Four Corners: Cyber War

In a room, deep inside a Las Vegas hotel, the world's best hackers are gathering. They're here to compete against each other and they're being watched by cyber warfare agencies the world over, not for prosecution, but for recruitment. They have the skills needed to wage espionage and warfare in the modern age. It's frighteningly easy to be hacked. If you have a smart phone, if you use internet banking, if you store your information ‘in the cloud’ then you are at risk. The Australian companies and institutions that have found themselves hacked are revealed, and we enter the cutting edge facility where Australian soldiers are being trained in the arts of cyber warfare where their computer skills can be used to shut down a power grid or cut off a city's water supply. Featuring an interview with the former head of the CIA and the NSA, Michael Hayden, who explains how the intelligence business has changed with young hackers parachuted into sensitive operational activities.