Add the electric grid as a target as well.
Probably shouldn’t have those computers connected to the internet in the first place
I am a lot more concerned about water pipes breaking at vote counting centers.
Why, oh, why — on God’s Green Earth — would ANY responsible city water department put their plant on the internet?
Perhaps I am ignorant of the imperatives, but it seems Cosmically Stoopid.
Absolutly. Our defenses have been, and remain wide open and vulnerable for attack. Both from abroad and within.
“The federal government should be involved with this at every step of the way,” Kiersten Todt, who served as a cybersecurity adviser to President Obama, told Nextgov Tuesday. “It should not be delegated to a local regulatory authority.”
Oh yeah...that’ll help.
The idea of public utilities (amongst other things) being vulnerable to online hacking has been around for at least as long as I have been on FR ~20 yrs, so the fact that it happened just shows that we have braindead morons are in charge of these things.
“The federal government should be involved with this at every step of the way,” Kiersten Todt“
No. The Feds **** up every single thing they touch.
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Quote~ “The federal government should be involved with this at every step of the way,” Kiersten Todt, who served as a cybersecurity adviser to President Obama, told Nextgov Tuesday. “It should not be delegated to a local regulatory authority.”
Because the federal government has such a great track record????
Actually given recent events, it may be the federal government that poses the greatest threat to America.
Why are any parts of our infrastructure on the internet?
Power, fuel and water worked fine before the internet.
We should go back.
So who discovered this breech? Feds or local?
Seems it slipped by the feds only to be intercepted by locals:
“On Monday, .....(local officials)..... from the city of Oldsmar and the surrounding Pinellas county said a “bad actor” used software that provides remote access to a public water treatment facility....”
Trump’s fault, they will probably impeach him for it.
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I thought letting a mixed bag of rioters storm the halls of Congress was a wake up call. How many wake up calls do we need to wake up. Cyber hackers are running rampant, yet not a bit of a mention from sleepy Joe as a national security threat. It’s 100 times the “threat” of the 4 season temp and weather changes, yet nothing from Jen. maybe she’ll circle back.
Ask any corporate head what their top concern is, it’s not competition, it’s cyber security threats.
Obviously Trumps fault.
No possibility of Government Bureaucrat Incompetence or Sedition.
Its almost comical that obama’s former advisor is suggesting federal oversight should be implemented to prevent further intrusions, when we’ve been lectured over the past month how the feds even failed to prevent an insurrection of ONE building. (Or were they complicit with the intrusion?)
Experts meant something years ago no it’s almost a warning.