What are the REAL targets?

March 24th, 2016 at 6:45:18 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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Bunch of mid-level mucky mucks in Iran cyber group tried to penetrate the Bowman Avenue Dam in Connecticut... a tiny little dam that impounds enough water to fill about three puddles. However, the Bowman Dam in Oregon is a mega-structure dam that would do some real damage to thems as were downstream when it failed. Seems like this mistake shows real intentions were quite serious.

DDOS are the old hat way of trying to disrupt but not penetrate major banking sites.

Any way it is clear the Russian, Chinese and Iranian hackers work for the military and work on assigned targets.

When are we going to realize that there won't be "Peace in the Pacific".
March 24th, 2016 at 6:56:23 PM permalink
rxwine
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Saw a story awhile back that some of our best protected sites benefit from outdated equipment. If someone has to go turn a crank, it becomes pretty hard to cyberhack.
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
March 24th, 2016 at 7:05:47 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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Yes. For a while there, one company made vacuum tubes for the museum market and for the FAA. Such obsolete equipment that a hacker probably wouldn't know what was if he saw it.

ALL of these jet fighters and bombers that are "Stealth" designated can be clearly seen by an old radar set now sitting in the Royal Electronic Museum. And by computers that see 'their wake' and assume the plane is in front of it.

Sometimes things are not connected to the internet at all, but some Field Tech comes along and downloads an update to the software or some minor piece of it.... and leaves the internet connection intact just long enough for the hackers to salivate. Then you have the worst situation: a sense of safety because you are not connected to the grid and an existing back door.