Crimea river.
Posted on 01/06/2016 2:44:32 PM PST by BenLurkin
A massive power outage in Ukraine last month has been attributed to hackers targeting the electricity grid with malware. Security researchers say it is the first known instance of a blackout being credibly linked to the actions of malicious hackers.
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Attacks on energy sources are fairly commonplace, but have never before caused a blackout, John Hultquist, iSight's head of cyberespionage intelligence practice, told Ars. That makes it a milestone, he said. "It;s the major scenario we've all been concerned about for so long."
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As for who might be responsible for the attack, Ukraine has already pointed the finger. Last week the country's energy ministry said the Ukrainian secret service blamed Russia. A special commission is being set up to investigate, Reuters reported. Tensions have been running high between the two countries since 2014, exacerbated by Russian military intervention in the region.
Researchers from security firm ESET believe the outage was caused by malware known as BlackEnergy, a trojan that has been used in previous attacks by Russia against government-related targets in Ukraine. "We can assume with a fairly high amount of certainty that the described toolset was used to cause the power outage in the Ivano-Frankivsk region" said researchers in a blog post outlining the likely scenario detailing how the attack was executed.
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ping
Can’t happen here, Any number of FReeper ‘experts’ will be along short to explain why.
Preppers’ PING!!
And call Trump. He knows how to build walls.;-)
Crimea river.
Ping for your “When the internet goes dark” ping list
I am so screwed.
Question:
“What did Socialists use for light before they had candles?”
Answer:
“Electricity”
Can’t happen here, Any number of FReeper ‘experts’ will be along short to explain why.
Yep.
They’ll mention Coast to Coast and Art Bell, too.
Question:
“What did Socialists use for light before they had candles?â€
Answer:
“Electricityâ€
Good one!
Ukraine knocks out power to Crimea. Russia returns the favor. Seems fair to me. After all, the Russians gave that nuclear power plant that just needs a little work to the Ukrainians for free.
(Link to the full-length Free Republic thread)
Now, that was a good punchline. It will probably go over the heads of some folks.
I’m thinking that the highest odds for a SHTF event here in the USA, and the deadline to have our preps squared away, will be the day that Obama leaves office and a republican is sworn in to replace him.
The government (along with the media and other beneficiaries of the administration) has been delaying the impact of the tricks the fed has been playing with interest rates, the real unemployment rate, and the effects of the $20 Trillion dollar to make Obama look good.
The miniute a republican president can be held responsible the floodgates will be opened.
yep, pretty good prediction IMHO
We need to get some hackers out of jail and put them to work for our government hacking enemy websites.
Great existential tag line Laz! 😎
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