Cyber-Follies at Homeland Security

American Thinker.com ^ | June 11, 2021 | Robert L. Maginnes

[Kaslin]

Russia, China, and the balance of the world's bad cyber-actors won't stop attacking American commercial and infrastructure targets like the Colonial Pipeline and JBS, the world's largest meat-processing company, until we make them pay an unacceptable price. Unfortunately, Congress and the federal government accept that grave risk.

America is a sitting duck to cyber-criminals and state actors, who easily harvest our intellectual property, degrade our communications, create false information that influences our politics, and erode our national will from keyboards abroad.

Yes, cyberspace operations are the new nuclear weapons and can be scaled from pinpricks up to attacks that cripple entire countries. The threat is so serious that it ought to capture the attention of every American.

The tip of the threat is cyber-crime, which costs the world perhaps $6 trillion annually, but more worrisome are state-sponsored cyber-attacks. After all, cyber is an invisible weapon to impose a cost and consume resources. No wonder our enemies in Moscow and Beijing host significant offensive cyber-armies and a variety of cyber-proxies that sow discontent and keep America tied down — an effective strategy.

resident Joe Biden's promise to put Russian president Vladimir Putin on notice for harboring cyber-criminals is an empty threat. Putin knows that America offers easy cyber-targets, such as last month's ransomware attack, which locked up Colonial Pipeline's computers, leaving East Coast gas tanks empty for more than a week.

[MissEdie]

A friend of mine, who’s brother is in cyber security, tried telling me we had way more attempts when Trump was in office. She said her brother told her everytime Trump sent one of his snarky tweets about China or Russia the web would light up with hackers trying to attack us. I pointed out under Trump we didn’t have anything like the attack on the pipeline (which by the way gas prices in SC have not gone back down to pre-attack levels); JBS the meat producer; or school systems like we have had recently.

[Ann Archy]

I think some DEMOCRATS did this and NOT “Russian Hackers”, just so when the prices at the gas pump and grocery store don’t blame Biden for the SOARING PRICE HIKES!!

[sauropod]

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