evince
Truthmatters
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/04/08/electricity-grid-in-us-penetrated-by-spies/
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The new war tactic shows why we need to rethink our military.
Our elecrtic grid has been hacked
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evince
Truthmatters
http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/18/cyber-attack-utilities-tech-intel-cx_ag_0118attack.html
Cyber-security experts have long warned of the vulnerability of critical infrastructure like power, transportation and water systems to malicious hackers. Friday, those warnings quietly became a reality: Tom Donahue, a CIA official, revealed at the SANS security trade conference in New Orleans that hackers have penetrated power systems in several regions outside the U.S., and "in at least one case, caused a power outage affecting multiple cities."
"We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet," Donahue said in a statement. "We suspect, but cannot confirm, that some of these attackers had the benefit of inside knowledge."
Other details were murky: Donahue didn't say when or where the cyber attacks had occurred, or how many people had been affected. He also glossed over what element of the systems had been exploited.
In recent months, security researchers have emphasized long-standing security vulnerabilities in the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems that control U.S. critical infrastructure systems ranging from power plants to dams to public transit (See " America's Hackable Backbone").
Cyber-security experts have long warned of the vulnerability of critical infrastructure like power, transportation and water systems to malicious hackers. Friday, those warnings quietly became a reality: Tom Donahue, a CIA official, revealed at the SANS security trade conference in New Orleans that hackers have penetrated power systems in several regions outside the U.S., and "in at least one case, caused a power outage affecting multiple cities."
"We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet," Donahue said in a statement. "We suspect, but cannot confirm, that some of these attackers had the benefit of inside knowledge."
Other details were murky: Donahue didn't say when or where the cyber attacks had occurred, or how many people had been affected. He also glossed over what element of the systems had been exploited.
In recent months, security researchers have emphasized long-standing security vulnerabilities in the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems that control U.S. critical infrastructure systems ranging from power plants to dams to public transit (See " America's Hackable Backbone").
SmarterthanYou
rebel
Grind is electric now? damn, he rocks.
It's when you dance closely with a vibrator in your pants. Kind of like the Electric Slide and Dirty Dancing mixed together...Hey evince, what's an elecrtic grind? I'm not sure if I should be concerned or not.
I fixed the title, evince. I hope you like it.
I think people are waiting, some subjects absorb a bit before they pick up.
Cancel 2016.2
The Almighty
we should simply ban all electronics for fear of them being hacked. Electric grid, voting machines etc... lets go back to the stone age.
Epicurus
Reasonable
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain[/ame]
Titan Rain was the U.S. government's designation given to a series of coordinated attacks on American computer systems since 2003. The attacks were labeled as Chinese in origin, although their precise nature (i.e., state-sponsored espionage, corporate espionage, or random hacker attacks) and their real identities (i.e, masked by proxy, zombie computer, spyware/virus infected) remain unknown. The designation 'Titan Rain' has been changed, but the new name for the attacks is itself classified if connected with this set of attacks.
In early December 2005 the director of the SANS Institute, a security institute in the U.S., said that the attacks were "most likely the result of Chinese military hackers attempting to gather information on U.S. systems."[1]
Titan Rain hackers gained access to many U.S. computer networks, including those at Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, Redstone Arsenal, and NASA.
Titan Rain was the U.S. government's designation given to a series of coordinated attacks on American computer systems since 2003. The attacks were labeled as Chinese in origin, although their precise nature (i.e., state-sponsored espionage, corporate espionage, or random hacker attacks) and their real identities (i.e, masked by proxy, zombie computer, spyware/virus infected) remain unknown. The designation 'Titan Rain' has been changed, but the new name for the attacks is itself classified if connected with this set of attacks.
In early December 2005 the director of the SANS Institute, a security institute in the U.S., said that the attacks were "most likely the result of Chinese military hackers attempting to gather information on U.S. systems."[1]
Titan Rain hackers gained access to many U.S. computer networks, including those at Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, Redstone Arsenal, and NASA.