Russian Cyber Attack???

[bwframe]

DHS warns of urgent cyberattack threat as Russia tensions escalate

The Department of Homeland Security warns “every organization in the United States is at risk from cyber threats” with Russia potentially considering “escalating its destabilizing actions.” The agency is urging businesses, agencies and more to shore up defenses, especially to protect critical...

www.nbcnews.com

Cyberattack hits Ukrainian banks and government websites

The source of the attack is not yet confirmed but the outages come as Russia has positioned troops to be able to invade Ukraine.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Steve]

Certainly a very real and serious possibility. Wouldn't take much to send us back to the 1800's. Computers control every bit of our day to day lives. Banks, fuel supply, medical services, food distribution, electrical service, communications. Not a pretty scenario.

 

[bwframe]

I'm very curious about the Russain cyber attacks on the Ukraine. Wonder how those were isolated to only Ukraine govt sites?

 

[philo]

I seem to recall that slow Joe provided Putin with an actual list of the cyber-infrastucture that he really didn't want Russia to mess with. Genius.

 

[spencer rifle]

This is where the big problem likely lies. No one has the lift capacity to get lots of troops here. Nukes are internationally risky and EMPs could invite counterattack by surviving weapons. Cyberattack has proven to work, and we've done very little to prevent it. What could be taken down in a targeted attack would make the ChiCom virus look like a Sunday picnic.

 

[Refrigerator27]

The biggest hit would be the utility grid. My companies I work with are on high alert so we don’t run into another case like the colonial pipeline

 

[kiddchaos]

Companies need to have detection software and a repsonse plan and run a drill.
We have enhanced our security at our company, as we make some defense related items.
Some resources: https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/resources/cybersecurity-framework

 

[KLB]

Cyberattack has proven to work, and we've done very little to prevent it.

Not true. There has been a huge focus on Cybersecurity in both the private and public sector.

This is another arms race, with the defense having a couple of big disadvantages. One being, people are stupid. You can count on your users doing stupid which can let bad guys in. The other is everything has vulnerabilities. Finding those vulnerabilities is challenging. Fixing them can be too. The bad guys just have to attack the ones that are missed, not maintain everything.