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At How Much Risk Is the US's Critical Infrastructure? (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: There is growing evidence that intrusions into the power grid and other critical infrastructure by hostile foreign nation states are real and happening. But there's "much less agreement over how much of a threat hackers are," writes Taylor Armerding. "On one side are those – some of them top government officials – who have warned that a cyber attack on the nation's critical infrastructure could be catastrophic,"writes Armerding. Others are crying FUD, including C. Thomas, a strategist at Tenable Network Security, who got some attention when he argued in an op-ed that the biggest threat to the U.S. power grid not a skilled hacker, but squirrels, are crying FUD. Who has it right? Agreement seems to coalesce around two points: 1) the cyber security of industrial control systems remains notoriously weak and 2) hostile hackers will improve their skills over time. So, while we haven't reached "catastrophe" yet, a properly motivated terrorist group could become a cyber threat.
If you dont vote for trump. Trump builds roads and streets, and makes china pay for it.
But they aren't very organized. Once they set up a twitter feed, or at least unionize, I'll start being concerned.
OMG Critical infrastructure should never be connected to the intertubes!!!!!
Squirrels don't work in groups.
You are so, so very wrong.
The problem is that most people who know that squirrels work in groups are now dead. Very very dead. With Oak trees growing out of their rotting corpses.
Posting anonymously for obvious reasons...
Don't listen to him. He is clearly nuts. I am totally not a squirrel. You can trust me.