CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid

[Osiris]

Can anyone explain to me how ANY computer that controls water, nuclear power, an electricity grid or a defense system has an active internet connection? Do you need to surf YouTube on the computer that controls the national power grid?

Criminals have launched online attacks that disrupted power equipment in several regions outside of the U.S., he said, without identifying the countries affected. The goal of the attacks was extortion, he said.

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[superdave1984]

Hmmm.... Al Gore running the show?

[Osiris]

It ****ess me off to hear this kind of stuff. They always wait till something happens before they take proper action.

Just like the RIAA website. It's common **** sense that the RIAA website will be a high profile site to attack but yet they leave it wide open to SQL Injection attack.

These people need to lock this **** down before it happens, not after. Locking it down after an attack means nothing as the attacker has aleady succeded.

The people that runs those places need to be fired and trained correctly.