US Electrical Grid Compromised!
According to a report the United States Electrical Grid is being compromised by Russian, and Chinese attackers.
This leads me to ask two questions.
1. Why is our electrical grid on the internet?
This question is ridiculous that I have to ask it. But at the very least if you are going to put the computers that run the electrical grid online, you could put some security in place.
2. Why do we STILL not have a national firewall?
I’ve been harping on this since I started this blog. Why don’t we have a national firewall? We should be severely restricting access to our US based networks from other countries. This makes sense for a number of reasons. First we’d kill most spam outright. But more importantly, we would keep attackers from breaking into computers in the US. The estimates vary, but probably a large number of servers and home computers are compromised as part of large botnets. Some of these are being run from countries around the world. Then we read of things like this, where our electrical grid is compromised?! We should be blocking a lot of the traffic coming from overseas.
You would think by now we’d be moving away from the internet’s wild west period….
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