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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 What security standards actually exist are out of date and don't cover enough, and corporations often use questionable supply chains because they are cheaper."
We get it. We're all in imminent danger. Fuck off already. These shitty fear mongering articles don't even contain any interesting technical information.
Amercians are so paranoid about socialism and communism. As an outsider looking it it's like a neurosis for your country.
America is the Hegemony of the world, you are the belligerent sabre rattlers, not China. You have released viruses that have taken down other countries power generation systems already.
Stay inside your own fucking country for once.