Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms
Mon Jul 23, 2018 5:41 pm
DHS has been warning us about SCADA system vulnerabilities for 10+ years.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-ha ... 1532388110
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-ha ... 1532388110
Re: Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms
Mon Jul 23, 2018 6:52 pm
Read the book "One Second After"
In the book it is terrorist High Altitude nukes set off from barges in the gulf of Mexico (3 of them) that terminates our electrical grid, but the foreword in the book discusses how this electrical grid melt down could be solar flares, or power grid infiltration by rogue states.
I warn you, you'll spend double on doomsday prep crap after reading this book recommendation "One Second After"
In the book it is terrorist High Altitude nukes set off from barges in the gulf of Mexico (3 of them) that terminates our electrical grid, but the foreword in the book discusses how this electrical grid melt down could be solar flares, or power grid infiltration by rogue states.
I warn you, you'll spend double on doomsday prep crap after reading this book recommendation "One Second After"
Re: Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms
Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:31 pm
Ted Koppel put out a book, "Lights Out", pro'ly 3, 4 years ago. Discusses our vulnerability.
"One Second After" - not bad. Like any novel/movie, there will be things you would have done differently, and things that likely would never happen but, overall not bad fiction. At least it's not written in First Person - Oy!
"One Second After" - not bad. Like any novel/movie, there will be things you would have done differently, and things that likely would never happen but, overall not bad fiction. At least it's not written in First Person - Oy!
Re: Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms
Mon Jul 23, 2018 8:26 pm
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Re: Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms
Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:03 am
sportsdad60 wrote:Read the book "One Second After"
In the book it is terrorist High Altitude nukes set off from barges in the gulf of Mexico (3 of them) that terminates our electrical grid, but the foreword in the book discusses how this electrical grid melt down could be solar flares, or power grid infiltration by rogue states.
I warn you, you'll spend double on doomsday prep crap after reading this book recommendation "One Second After"
After reading this thread last night, I downloaded and started reading. It looks like all is going according to plan ...
In any SHTF scenario, the suburbs are where the problems are going to really be. People will flock out of the cities, starving, and run through neighborhoods in the burbs. Even with defensive weaponry, most are not sited in very defensible positions. Fire could be the ultimate weapon, no need to get too close to force an evacuation.
The rural areas will try to stop migration out of the suburbs, leaving them as the battleground.
By the way, a real EMP attack will not only get circuitry, but anything with coiled wire - and that includes older cars with conventional ignition. If directly exposed, they won't be running either.
Re: Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms
Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:45 pm
I attended a course over 20 years ago with a white hat hacker who told us about penetrating the gas main in a large office building. No one believed him, so he had the authorities show up and watch while he manipulating the switching and opened the gas main into a parking garage. All he needed after that was a spark.
During the same course, his guy sat off to the side of the room and hacked into the State of IL Treasurers office (with their security sitting in the room watching) and set up fictitious employee accounts complete with bank accounts to direct deposit their payroll checks into. I think the hack took his guy about 5 hours. Once they got in, they put it on the overhead and set up the accounts while we watched. The State guys were in full out panic after that.
During the same course, his guy sat off to the side of the room and hacked into the State of IL Treasurers office (with their security sitting in the room watching) and set up fictitious employee accounts complete with bank accounts to direct deposit their payroll checks into. I think the hack took his guy about 5 hours. Once they got in, they put it on the overhead and set up the accounts while we watched. The State guys were in full out panic after that.