Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Power Plants, U.S. Says

The New York Slimes Absolutely Fake news ^ | March 15, 2018 | Hacks NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGER

[NutsOnYew]

From the 22nd paragraph of the article

LOL! Yeah, I usually get bored before then.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

NeoCons have taken over messaging from the Trump White House. They are lying about many things, including Assad using chems (they were the Jihadists’ chems).

From this, I can only conclude that Trump has lost power.

[Navy Patriot]

We should tell russia - you screw with one power plant and Moscow is glass.

Well, if you trust Jerry Brown and his ilk not to use "the Russians did it" as cover for his Prog mismanagement and failure to maintain California dams and reservoirs resulting in the Folsom Dam Spillway failure and county wide evacuation, I guess that'd be OK.

[Terry Mross]

If “they” can do it to us, we can do it to “them”.

[Bonemaker]

Can they do Baltimore as a demo?

[Navy Patriot]

From this, I can only conclude that Trump has lost power.

Don't know about that, but it is unwise to allow Deep Swamp Alphabet Agencies to cover their incompetence, malfeasance, sloth, failure in maintenance and Liberal Prog bias with "The Russians Did It".

[sockmonkey]

*** NeoCons have taken over messaging from the Trump White House. They are lying about many things, including Assad using chems (they were the Jihadists’ chems).

From this, I can only conclude that Trump has lost power. ***

I don’t follow US news that much. Have they reported on the 24 tons of CW/ CW factory the SAA uncovered in East Ghouta?
Lots of pics.
Also, the prison that was uncovered in East Ghouta?

How about the claims that western media is not showing the southern corridor that Russia and Syria finally opened where the civilians have poured out telling the horrors they endured under the US/UK supported rebels in Ghouta?

What little I’ve seen was Nikki Haley & associates with their #SaveGhouta #BombDamascus spiel.

[Navy Patriot]

I take this to mean that we caught them in these networks and have uprooted and blocked them back out.

Nope, and nope.

It means we have LOGS that indicate SOMEONE was in these networks from SOMEWHERE else, and they downloaded a lot of files.

Oh, and the network maintenance and security was malfeasant, but close enough for Government work.

[Timmy]

I work at a nuclear plant. This is not possible.

[Navy Patriot]

I work at a nuclear plant. This is not possible.

True, at your plant, but only because American Leftist Progs don't have Russian fingers.

[BBell]

We are not at war with Eurasia. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

[meatloaf]

I remember that article. The Russians seemed to be playing with Ukraine and polishing their techniques.

[FlingWingFlyer]

So if the Russkis really wanted to “meddle” and “collude” in our elections they could have just shut off all of the electricity to the polling places and not spent all that money on Facebook ads? The Mueller fiasco is getting creepier by the day.

[Republican Wildcat]

Is there a reason these facilities need to be connected to a network accessible to others? We had plants before any of this existed...may be time to go back to something more like that to where outside actors cannot sabotage.

[Navy Patriot]

Is there a reason these facilities need to be connected to a network accessible to others?

Yep, efficiency and management of the entire grid, and the internet is accessible to others.

The simple key is that these facilities can be secure behind properly configured and maintained firewalls.

We don't do that through incompetence of the responsible parties, Government Employees and Private. We need the Russians to blame while in constant CYA mode.

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[CincyRichieRich]

We can say, Russ...More likely to have been, China, however.

[Future Snake Eater]

They’re talking about “sabotaging” and “shut down” power plants. That didn’t happen. They exfiltrated data. They also got caught and their attack vector is now completely useless, nationwide.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Its just a matter of time. That’s why we keep one year of food stored. At some point the NE grid will go down from cyber attack. The govt does nothing to harden the grid.