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03-03-2015, 05:01
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/03/03/Your-Next-Flight-Could-Be-Hit-Cyber-Attack
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WIRED has an interesting article below. Resurrecting an old thread from a missed contributor.
Cyberwar gives new meaning to softening up an opponent.
Screw with utilities, water, flights, banking, ...infiltrate small groups of professional subversives, etc., creating economic and political uncertainty or even chaos...complete article at link below.
Imagine after some months of chaos...some idiot "rogue terrorist group" was set up to then pop off an EMP or dirty bomb?
HOW AN ENTIRE NATION BECAME RUSSIA'S TEST LAB FOR CYBERWAR
Wired
AUTHOR: ANDY GREENBERGANDY GREENBERG
SECURITY
06.20.1706:00 AM
The clocks read zero when the lights went out.
It was a Saturday night last December, and Oleksii Yasinsky was sitting on the couch with his wife and teenage son in the living room of their Kiev apartment. The 40-year-old Ukrainian cybersecurity researcher and his family were an hour into Oliver Stone’s film Snowden when their building abruptly lost power.
“The hackers don’t want us to finish the movie,” Yasinsky’s wife joked. She was referring to an event that had occurred a year earlier, a cyberattack that had cut electricity to nearly a quarter-million Ukrainians two days before Christmas in 2015. Yasinsky, a chief forensic analyst at a Kiev digital security firm, didn’t laugh. He looked over at a portable clock on his desk: The time was 00:00. Precisely midnight.
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But many global cybersecurity analysts have a much larger theory about the endgame of Ukraine’s hacking epidemic: They believe Russia is using the country as a cyberwar testing ground—a laboratory for perfecting new forms of global online combat. And the digital explosives that Russia has repeatedly set off in Ukraine are ones it has planted at least once before in the civil infrastructure of the United States.
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https://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-attack-ukraine/
National public efforts from the 50's such as "duck and cover" need to be brought back in a new format such as "change your password, patch, and update."