Posted on 11/06/2014 12:36:14 PM PST by driftdiver
A destructive Trojan Horse malware program has penetrated the software that runs much of the nations critical infrastructure and is poised to cause an economic catastrophe, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
National Security sources told ABC News there is evidence that the malware was inserted by hackers believed to be sponsored by the Russian government, and is a very serious threat.
The hacked software is used to control complex industrial operations like oil and gas pipelines, power transmission grids, water distribution and filtration systems, wind turbines and even some nuclear plants. Shutting down or damaging any of these vital public utilities could severely impact hundreds of thousands of Americans
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
OK it worked twice, once in 1982 in Russia then Stuxnet in Iran. I knew about both of those. Any other examples? I mean this Trojan is alleged to be infecting control software for “industrial operations like oil and gas pipelines, power transmission grids, water distribution and filtration systems, wind turbines and even some nuclear plants” since 2011 all over in NATO Europe and the USA.
Yes I read it. I know what SCADA is, I work in the power industry. The California substation attack had nothing to do with SCADA. It was not a “software” attack.
Already done. 5KW with sixteen L-16 batteries.
I believe its worked more than once on Iran.
That’s the problem with people. They think just because it has never happened it can’t and here is something that has happened and some still don’t believe it can’t. I am not saying that this particular Trojan can, but give time someone will, can and has come up with something.
If I would have told you say in 1999 that terrorist would bring down both towers of the World Trade Center for the cost of some flying lessons, some one way tickets and some box knifes you would have looked at me like I was wearing a tin foil hat.
Terrorist are the masters of the cheap sucker punch.
Can you imagine what the Pentagon budge would have been and the manpower involve if they had planned a operation like 9/11?
I answered privately.
Me thinks the hackers are part of the Obola administration.
And the thousands of people who rely on electricity to keep their medications at proper temperature, run their oxygen machines, etc. Unfortunately, it’s not just the parasites that would suffer.
I would be in a foul mood in the middle of a Florida August with no A/C. :)
“If I would have told you say in 1999 that terrorist would bring down both towers of the World Trade Center for the cost of some flying lessons, some one way tickets and some box knifes you would have looked at me like I was wearing a tin foil hat.”
Actually I wouldn’t have. I understood the possibility existed even before I read it in Tom Clancy’s “Debt of Honor”. Too many in government haven’t learned to think like our enemies. They seem to be the main ones thinking it can’t happen here or it won’t happen because it hasn’t happened before.
I work for a state correctional facility and our security fence is run by a Windows 95 based Pentium 1 PC because it has the ISA slot that is needed to run the comm card.
Fortunately an upgrade should be complete by the years end.
Without going into specifics, which obviously I cannot, there are dedicated real-time teams devoted to maintaining security.
I am hard to impress.
I was impressed.
See, and that is how I was able to walk right out the gate with nobody giving me a second glance. :)
What is DWTS? Doctor Who TARDIS Security?
Odd how this report would be published two days after our Mid Terms.
Awwwww, how sweet!
They remembered the time we used a trojan to blow up their main gas pipeline!
PING!
The article makes an allegation with very little proof, and there is very little proof of the threat being offered here. Lets say their was solid proof the alleged threat existed. The article gets publish, the “public” becomes “aware” of the “threat”. The public then and decides to use “politics” and “political pressure” - what would that look like? Political pressure to do what? What kind of solutions would an “aware” public offer to counter this alleged threat?
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