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DHS Forms New Cyber Hub To Protect Critical US Infrastructure (wsj.com)
The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday the creation of a new center aimed at guarding the nation's banks, energy companies and other industries from major cyberattacks that could cripple critical infrastructure. From a report: The launch of the National Risk Management Center was unveiled by DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a government-hosted cyber summit in New York City, at which Vice President Mike Pence and several other cabinet secretaries are expected to speak. In prepared remarks, Ms. Nielsen said that cyber threats now posed a greater threat to the country than physical attacks. DHS was founded 15 years ago to prevent another Sept. 11, 2001, Ms. Nielsen said, but "today I believe the next major attack is more likely to reach us online than on an airplane." The center's creation was motivated by a growing recognition in government that sophisticated cyberattacks, particularly those deployed by foreign adversaries, can not only harm a company or industry but can cause systemic failure across society, Chris Krebs, DHS's top cyber official, said in an interview.
There's the word "cyber" in the name of their unit, that means they're good!
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Say, isn't this the same outfit that's responsible for the TSA?
It's DHS's turn! Just like every other Tom, Dick, and Harry that puts together meaningless government agencies. How many others have done the same thing already, anybody know?
For those interested, it will be housed at Arlington, Virginia.
The most costly "terrorist" attack on the US this century will probably be a cyber attack.
The most lives and injuries will almost certainly be of a more conventional nature.
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I thought it said To Protect Criminal US Infrastructure.
Remember the Vault7 exploits that allow the CIA to hack people while making it look like it was Russians? Remember when the CIA claimed Russian hacking due to finding "Russian" malware on infected systems? From Vault 7: CIA can customize the "fingerprints" hacks leave behind and make it look like someone else did it. No, this is not some crazy conspiracy theory nonsense just because I said "CIA". This is for real.
Now, because the tools that the CIA developed to put a Russian fingerprint on any hack were leaked to hackers and rogue agents, anyone else can too, because the CIA was so utterly lax with their security. Any fingerprint is evidence of absolutely nothing, thanks to these leaks.
The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group. Yup, that's what they're called. But don't trust me, check it out yourself: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/...
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
We hear about cyber penetration of critical infrastructure a week or 2 ago & now this announcement all ready to go.
They haven't yet created an army of cybermen, so not sure about how imminent their success may be.
Seattle the new Detroit.
Are they going to pay worth a damn for talent, or stick with the current GS pay scale?
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Single point of failure! :-)
The plot to a Die Hard movie? One center with a copy of all the important data for the bad guys to break into?
only the Commander-in-Chief has the power to create a new branch of the military.
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The federal government has been holding summits, congressional hearings, etc. on "cyber" attacks for as long as the word "cyber" has been around, I think. Every administration announces some initiative to spend a fuckload of money setting up a response center, or military division to address the "ever-growing threat of cyberattacks on the United States". It's always ever-growing and, yet, no country has ever taken advantage of our perpetual cyber-vulnerability even though they've had ample opportunities. If cyberbaddies wanted to cripple the US, they would have done it long ago. Why wait around for the US to shore up its defenses?
They haven't because the threat from state actors is so insignificant that it practically doesn't exist. Intelligence gathering? Yes. Attacking infrastructure? No. This just more theater to mask the US role in becoming a cybersupermonster capable of doing the very things to the rest of the world that we're supposed to be guarding against.
thanks Donald for making the bloated bureaucracy even bigger.
DHS Forms New Cyber Hub To Infect Critical US Infrastructure
i come from the dept of common sense and they are already doing it, and if not, our government never surprises me once again, a bunch of wait to something breaks before they do something to prevent it...probably just news or propaganda for the public so they can feel safer and sleep at night.
one could/should set up a series of honey pots and see what comes sniffing, probing and door knob rattling and knocking...... all day, every day. you would be surprised.. I am not...surprised... logs going back years show lots of patterns.... hmmmm... anyone wonder what those countries and city could be... obfuscation attempts at their best to hide their real location...
ironically the term "cyber counter attack" should be more like "cyber protection" which should mean... I sense you are about to hit me, so I hit you first, or does it mean i sense you are about to hit me, so I increase my shields by a factor of 10, or should be shields already be at maximum? ummm... Capt. we engines can't take much more....
enjoy... another DHS fiasco... or not...
next up the CLOUD IMPERIUM ...oh wait
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Take off you shoes and lets us feel you up FOR SECURITY REASONS.
Great! Defund the NSA, since that is their job too!
I'm still trying to understand any "value add" by DHS. Any.
Weren't they supposed to be a liason-only org to help NSA,FBI, CIA, TSA talk and figure out better ways to violate the rights of Americans?
What will be the role of this cyber hub? How is it going to push banks and utilities to update unmaintained systems?
The only thing I believe to be useful here would be economical incentive. That is, big fine and corporate leaders legal liability for security incidents.
At least 3 federal agencies (NSA/CIA/FBI) have long lists of vulnerabilities to break into systems. Who wants to bet they'll share any info with this new agency?
“The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday the creation of a new center aimed at guarding the nation's banks, energy companies and other industries from major cyberattacks that could cripple critical infrastructure.”
How about they not run their critical infrastructure on Microsoft Windows directly connected to the Internet.
I see banks, energy companies and other industries" but no mention of voting infrastructure, the only one that has actually been attacked already.
That mean the DHS has a program to separate online profiles of immigrant parents from thier children's online profiles. Your training is complete, join me on the dark side.
We are supposed to have a Cyber Defense Hub/HQ/Task Force about 15 times over already, in budgets going back over 10 years. This is a serious embarrassment for US "Cyber Defense". Its not HARD to secure computer networks and computer equipment. It legitimately is NOT hard. If these is any weakness it is intentional sabotage from industry, or our nations hardware engineers.
I think we've seen from this administrations complete undermining of basic security protections (including scoffing at clearances, removing cybersecurity from the national security council and refusing to investigate hacking claims in the 2016 election) that they are not trustworthy when it comes to cybersecurity. Fact is we've seen evidence that Foreign Cyberware units are infiltrating critical infrastructure. Without trust in our own government, this amounts to grandstanding and deniability when that next attack comes... and who knows they may have advanced notice that just such an attack is coming. Most of the comments on here are about this initiative being completely ineffectual... I think those comments are correct... and I'm simply adding that we need to consider that this is the intention, to look like you are doing something (we're tough on cybersecurity), but not actually doing anything.
The National Communications System, which was part of DISA in the late 1990's, along with the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), proposed this way back then. The NCS is now part of DHS. Whatever happened to that 20 year old proposal and similar ones since that this has still not been established?
DHS was founded 15 years ago to prevent another Sept. 11, 2001, ...
According to my calendar, there hasn't been a single Sept 11, 2001 since the DHS was founded. Heck of a job, guys!