The Cyber Threat To the Global Oil Supply

Lasrick writes "Blake Clayton has an excellent piece on the cyber threat to the global oil supply. His description of the August attack on Saudi Aramco, which rendered thirty thousand of its computers useless, helps make his point. From the article: 'The future of energy insecurity has arrived. In August, a devastating cyber attack rocked one of the world’s most powerful oil companies, Saudi Aramco, Riyadh’s state-owned giant, rendering thirty thousand of its computers useless. This was no garden-variety breach. In the eyes of U.S. defense secretary Leon Panetta, it was “probably the most destructive attack that the private sector has seen to date.”'"

Comments

It is just a mistake.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

It is not a cyber attack. It is just the project ORCA meant to help the election day volunteers for Mitt Romney got its URL messed up and kept redirecting traffic from its http server to https server. It somehow sent everything via Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Aramco is just a bystander caught in the cross fire. Simple glitch.

Re:state-owned = private sector???"

[dfn5]

state-owned = private sector???

I think you mean ==. You just assigned private sector to state-owned.