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Nightmare Fuel / CSI: Cyber

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Season 2 Episode 7 - "Corrupted Memory"

  • The Cyber team discover that the victim and her fiance were using 'net-capable sex toys that someone else could remotely intrude upon and tamper with. Avery correctly describes this as "cyber rape".

Season 2 Episode 11 - "404: Plane Not Found"

  • Someone managed to figure out a way to manipulate a plane and almost caused it to crash which is no easy feat. If it wasn't for the pilot's quick thinking, the plane would had crashed with no survivors. Even if all the passengers survived the experience, imagine the terror they felt as the plane went down and they all must had thought they would all died.

Season 2 Episode 12 - "Going Viral"

  • A hacker uses a malware infection that can easily propagate in order to redirect 911 calls from cell phones, and render the phones inoperative afterwards. Even the suspicion that a 911 call might not go through is unsettling.

Season 2 Episode 13 - "The Walking Dead"

  • A hacker is breaking into a federal database to make it appear a person is deceased. Once that's done, a person can basically become a non-entity, unable to access their money, use licenses or even hold a job. Even if they're literally standing in a courtroom, a judge declares that as long as the computer says they're dead, they can't do anything that's a legal basis.

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