U.S. Power Grid Being Hit With ‘Increasing’ Hacking Attacks, Government Warns

Free Beacon ^ | 6/24/15 | Adam Kredo

[Kartographer]

Major attacks on the U.S. power grid system are “increasing,” with hackers stepping up efforts to penetrate critical systems and to implant malicious software that could compromise the power grid and result in a nationwide crisis, according to a government report.

While experts have long signaled that the U.S. power grid and related systems are vulnerable to physical attacks by terrorists and other individuals, the U.S. government is now warning that sensitive computer systems that maintain the grid are increasingly being attacked, according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report that was not made public until the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) disclosed it this month.

The report warns that hackers potentially affiliated with terrorist groups or rogue nations have the ability to insert harmful malware into the internal systems governing the U.S. grid, which increasingly are being hooked into the Internet.

[Kartographer]

Sooner or later a combination of physical and cyber attack is going to happen and then it's 'lights out'!

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[x1stcav]

I can’t wait for the East Coast cities to lose their A/C. And water. And food. And fuel,

I could go on and on.

It’s a good thing ‘schadenfreude’ isn’t fattening.

[Mark]

A password like ImdrawingpicofMohammad?

[Kartographer]

If you want to know what kind of damage can be done to a utility system by a hack:

CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1455559/CIA-plot-led-to-huge-blast-in-Siberian-gas-pipeline.html

[magna carta]

luv it!

[Maceman]

Schadenfreude? Are you a sociopath, or just a moron?

[varyouga]

Thanks for the kind words for those of us behind enemy lines...

[x1stcav]

Schadenfreude? Are you a sociopath, or just a moron?

I'm not certain I'm either the moron or the psychopath here, turd.

I apologize. You must think schadenfreude is some kind of very rich German dessert because of my reference to weight gain.

[x1stcav]

I do feel for you. But there is time to escape.

[IYAS9YAS]

I can’t wait for the East Coast cities to lose their A/C. And water. And food. And fuel,

There are three grids for electrical distribution in the United States. Colorado is part of the western grid. Guess what, they target that grid right, and your lights go out, too. And water, and food, and fuel.

[x1stcav]

There are three grids for electrical distribution in the United States. Colorado is part of the western grid. Guess what, they target that grid right, and your lights go out, too. And water, and food, and fuel.

Uh, not mine. I live at 9500 feet in the Southern Rockies and have been preparing for this day for over ten years.

But, thanks for your concern.

I wish you luck, wherever you are. We're all going to need it.

But, the rot is in the big cities. I would like them to disappear.

[Bryan24]

How about we take the power grid off the net? Literally. Run new comms line for each power generating station. Money well spent.

[bgill]

IOW, hussein gave China and his muzzy bros the passwords to the grid.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[varyouga]

F U Pussy! It’s precisely the spread of YOUR attitude why most patriots left the cities. “White flight” like scared little bitches instead of taking it back!

I can “escape” any day but I’ll be last man standing if I have to.

Right now I’m across the street from Fraunces Tavern. Where most of the founders of this once great nation plotted to overthrow the British. They stood up to the greatest empire on earth to take this land for Freedom and now you’re telling us to run. *SPIT*

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’d just be happy with it causing Congressional Democrats and RINOs to run home squealing like pigs.

[bicyclerepair]

In late Oct. after hurricane Wilma knocked out the power, it was actually nice.

No planes, it was cool, neighbors actually hung out. I loved it. Layed outside and watched shooting stars I never saw before.

But summer is a whole different story. Need ac June to Sept. here or it’s no sleep and complete misery.

[ozarkgirl]

But summer is a whole different story. Need ac June to Sept. here or it’s no sleep and complete misery.

Same here, I'm afraid we'd have to head for the mountains because Mr. OG simply cannot stand the heat and I'm only slightly better. Today was 100, yesterday was 100 and the day before that 100.

[x1stcav]

I understand. I spent the summer of ‘69 at Ft. Benning. Good luck to you.