MMC
03-17-2018, 08:14 AM
A US security alert (https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-074A) on Thursday contained a jarring warning: Russia has infiltrated the US energy grid and could wreak havoc if it chose to do so.
"They have the ability to shut the power off," an exec with the digital security firm Symantec tells the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/russia-cyberattacks.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news). "All that's missing is some political motivation." The alert from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI says hackers working on behalf of the Russian government got into the systems of nuclear, water, and electrical plants, as well as "critical manufacturing sectors," and essentially poked around to figure out how things operated.
Related details and developments:
When: The feds say these "Russian government cyber actors" began the operation in March 2016, possibly earlier, reports Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions-energygrid/in-a-first-u-s-blames-russia-for-cyber-attacks-on-energy-grid-idUSKCN1GR2G3).
It's described as an "ongoing campaign."
The hackers appear to have done nothing malicious upon entering, but screenshots posted by the feds make clear that the hackers gained the necessary "foothold" on systems to take them down in, say, the event of a conflict, per the Times......snip~
http://start.att.net/news/read/category/news%20/article/newser-warning_about_russia_they_can_shut_the_power_off-rnewsernor
More failure by BO the Peep and the Sell out Demos. This is exactly what happens when Demos run things. The Repubs should point this out in any elections.
"They have the ability to shut the power off," an exec with the digital security firm Symantec tells the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/russia-cyberattacks.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news). "All that's missing is some political motivation." The alert from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI says hackers working on behalf of the Russian government got into the systems of nuclear, water, and electrical plants, as well as "critical manufacturing sectors," and essentially poked around to figure out how things operated.
Related details and developments:
When: The feds say these "Russian government cyber actors" began the operation in March 2016, possibly earlier, reports Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions-energygrid/in-a-first-u-s-blames-russia-for-cyber-attacks-on-energy-grid-idUSKCN1GR2G3).
It's described as an "ongoing campaign."
The hackers appear to have done nothing malicious upon entering, but screenshots posted by the feds make clear that the hackers gained the necessary "foothold" on systems to take them down in, say, the event of a conflict, per the Times......snip~
http://start.att.net/news/read/category/news%20/article/newser-warning_about_russia_they_can_shut_the_power_off-rnewsernor
More failure by BO the Peep and the Sell out Demos. This is exactly what happens when Demos run things. The Repubs should point this out in any elections.