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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussian hackers have successfully attacked US electric grid.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/24/1783065/-America-is-under-attack-Feds-say-Russia-successfully-hacked-into-the-U-S-electrical-grid#read-moreWith that in mind, this news is especially troubling: Department of Homeland Security officials say the Russians successfully hacked into the control rooms of U.S. electrical utilities and couldve thrown the switches at any time. From the Wall Street Journal:
The Russian hackers, who worked for a shadowy state-sponsored group previously identified as Dragonfly or Energetic Bear, broke into supposedly secure, air-gapped or isolated networks owned by utilities with relative ease by first penetrating the networks of key vendors who had trusted relationships with the power companies, said officials at the Department of Homeland Security.
They got to the point where they could have thrown switches and disrupted power flows, said Jonathan Homer, chief of industrial-control-system analysis for DHS.
Intelligence experts have been warning of these types of attacks for years.
Theyve been intruding into our networks and are positioning themselves for a limited or widespread attack, said Michael Carpenter, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, who now is a senior director at the Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania. They are waging a covert war on the West.
The Russian hackers, who worked for a shadowy state-sponsored group previously identified as Dragonfly or Energetic Bear, broke into supposedly secure, air-gapped or isolated networks owned by utilities with relative ease by first penetrating the networks of key vendors who had trusted relationships with the power companies, said officials at the Department of Homeland Security.
They got to the point where they could have thrown switches and disrupted power flows, said Jonathan Homer, chief of industrial-control-system analysis for DHS.
Intelligence experts have been warning of these types of attacks for years.
Theyve been intruding into our networks and are positioning themselves for a limited or widespread attack, said Michael Carpenter, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, who now is a senior director at the Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania. They are waging a covert war on the West.
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Russian hackers have successfully attacked US electric grid. (Original Post)
DetlefK
Jul 2018
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CrispyQ
(36,225 posts)1. WTF? How did we let this happen? I thought we were number one?
Yes I was being sarcastic, but what happened? Have our industries been sitting on their profits & not re-investing? Or are the Russians just that much better at hacking & if so, why aren't we?
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)2. Beware November 6
Like the DU hack, election day is like Amazon Prime day for hackers.