Russian Hacking

[Readymom]

Hat tip to 'Rick' over at EHP-Discussion site:

Seems like Russia is not only looking at the 2018 elections but is looking harder at our electrical grid. Here's an artical about Russian hacking from the NY times.



Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/us/politics/russian-hackers-electric-grid-elections-.html

WASHINGTON — State-sponsored Russian hackers appear far more interested this year in demonstrating that they can disrupt the American electric utility grid than the midterm elections, according to United States intelligence officials and technology company executives. ---CONTINUED---

[Readymom]

Hat Tip to 'Rick', over at EHP-Discussion site:

Here's another good article from March 2018 on Russia hacking the electrical grid:


Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Power Plants, U.S. Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/russia-cyberattacks.html

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.

United States officials and private security firms saw the attacks as a signal by Moscow that it could disrupt the West’s critical facilities in the event of a conflict. ---CONTINUED---

[Readymom]

Russia Hacked U.S. Power Grid
https://www.wgbh.org/news/2018/03/23/ru ... o-about-it

"They were not simply looking around that system and reconnoitering it," Joel Brenner, former head of counter intelligence under the Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration, told NPR. "They were placing the tools that they would have to place in order to turn off the power. That's a serious vulnerability for us and we're not anywhere near ready to deal with it." ---CONTINUED---