[Navy Patriot]

Fortunately, we have absolute, unequivocal confirmation from the FBI that there is no possibility that this report is in error.

MI6, too.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

This is the kind of thing(s) that careful observers have noted have been going on for TWENTY YEARS. Yes, since the mid-late 90’s. We are blitheringly and negligently insane not to have developed defenses and countermeasures for this activity at least 15 years ago.

[ThanhPhero]

If it can be done it will be done. FIX IT!

[ETL]

So called “Navy Patriot”, your devotion to KGB Putin is sick.

[NutsOnYew]

The Trump administration accused Russia on Thursday of engineering a series of cyberattacks that targeted American and European nuclear power plants and water and electric systems, and could have sabotaged or shut power plants off at will.

I suspect this happens all the time and that we do it right back. This is kinda like submarines pinging each other or Russian fighter jets approaching a US carrier.

[M. Thatcher]

the strikes accelerated in late 2015

Wait, who was President then?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

My work in the utility industry was with an integrated gas/electric/water utility in the Midwest. I worked full time in research and analytics while attending law school. I came away from that experience very unimpressed with the IT sophistication of that organization - and it included nuclear generation assets. Unless something has changed in the last 20 years, they are sitting ducks.

When I first started working at the utility it was 1992 - and the first thing I asked for was a file layout for the main customer file (database). It took about a week, and then a large interoffice mail envelope (with the string fastener) arrived with a photocopy of a green-bar paper printout of the COBOL 01 level layout for the customer file. Up in one corner of the printout was the date 12/10/1977. I called the folks who sent it to me and said: “there must be a mistake - this is dated 1977, this can’t possibly be the correct, current master file layout.” The response was: “oh no, that’s it.”

I’m thinking something like that is still going on there, and that means we should be very afraid that some extremely skilled Russsian hackers have our infrastructure number.

[bigbob]

Well if your goal is to create chaos, how better? Imagine taking down part of the power grid on election night, for example. What would we do?

[sockmonkey]

I thought the last time I heard this, it was North Koreans, renowned as unsurpassed hackers, and currency counterfeiters.

[raiderboy]

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

[varyouga]

No controls going to any reactor systems should be connected to the internet. Every remote terminal that connects to the plant in any way must be monitored by heavily armed physical security and biometric ID. No wireless anywhere and every inch of cable must be hardened and have a tamper alarm.

This is elementary engineering, people!

[Mariner]

I wish we could believe our intelligence agencies.

But we can’t.

Unfortunately this might be true. And they have squandered all their credibility.

[Rashputin]

A couple months from now, buried deep in the back pages of the NYT, will be a report saying it's really some teenager in Des Moines who takes over power plants with a script he got from the dump of CIA stuff Wikileaks spread.

That is if they don't raid a house down the street from the kid they want with forty guys, two armored vehicles, and an Apache flying cover, when the kid is actually at school

[Future Snake Eater]

The Trump administration accused Russia on Thursday of engineering a series of cyberattacks that targeted American and European nuclear power plants and water and electric systems, and could have sabotaged or shut power plants off at will.

I take this to mean that we caught them in these networks and have uprooted and blocked them back out. Otherwise that means they actually executed some kind of attack which would be really stupid for a variety of reasons.

[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.

[Timmy]

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

[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.

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[CincyRichieRich]

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

[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.