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Utilities Racing To Secure Electric Grid
FreeMichael61 writes "In the latest episode of Spy vs. Spy, China rejects accusations it's hacking U.S. companies to steal IP or bring down the grid. But there's no doubt the grid can be hacked, CIO Journal's Steve Rosenbush and Rachael King report. Industrial control networks are supposed to be protected from the Internet by an air gap that, it turns out, is largely theoretical. Internal security is often lax, laptops and other devices are frequently moved between corporate networks and control networks, and some SCADA systems are still directly connected to the internet. What security standards actually exist are out of date and don't cover enough, and corporations often use questionable supply chains because they are cheaper."
You shouldn't have been modded down. Fear mongering has become very big business in our Post 9/11 World
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Repeat after me.
The only succesfull attack on the US power grid was perpetrated by Enron, and it was to make money. They shut down entire sections of the grid to make a profit. There were rolling blackouts not because of 'hackers' but because of Enron. And almost nobody went to jail for it, and alot of the same guys wound up in the subprime mortgage business after Enron went belly up. And most of them never saw any consequences either. They just got richer.
Wake up people. We are doing more damage to ourselves than China could ever dream of. They are simply waiting for us to finally implode (with 14 trillion dollars of debt, it wont take long)