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This list of threatened systems appears on the Web site of the Institutition of Electrical Engineers, a British organization. It is certainly thorough -- and frightening.
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(a) Manufacturing and process control
Manufacturing plants
Water and sewage systems
Power stations
Power grid systems
Oil refineries and related storage facilities
Bottling plants
Automated factories
Simulators
Test equipment for control system development, maintenance and testing
(b) Construction industry
Surveying and locational equipment
Construction plant
(c) Transport
Aeroplanes
Trains
Buses
Marine craft
Automobiles
Fuel services
Air Traffic Control Systems
Signalling systems
Radar systems
Traffic lights
Ticketing systems/machines
Car parking and other meters
(d) Buildings and premises
Electrical supply - supply, measurement, control, protection
Backup lighting and generators
Fire control systems
Heating and ventilating systems
Lifts, elevators, escalators
Security systems
Security cameras
Safes and vaults
Door locks
(e) Domestic services
Catering
Cleaning
(f) Communications
Telephone exchange
Cable systems
Telephone switches
Satellites see also Global Positioning System (GPS) problem
Data switching equipment (X.25, SMDS, Frame Relay, etc.)
(g) Office systems and mobile equipment
Telephone systems
Faxes
Copier
Time recording systems
Mobile telephones
Still and video cameras
(h) Banking, finance and commercial
Automated teller systems
Credit card systems
Point of sale systems including scanner/cash systems
(i) Medical diagnostics, monitoring and life support
Heart defibrillators
Pacemaker monitors
Patient information systems
Patient monitoring systems
Pharmaceutical control and dispensing systems, e.g. infusion pumps
X-ray equipment
(j) Testing, monitoring and diagnostic systems
Energy metering
Environmental monitoring equipment
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