What would happen under the circumstances of a cyberattack targeted towards America? Would people go Mad Max crazy? In Ted Koppel’s book “Lights Out” he explains that if the power grid were to go down due to cyberattack, it would go down for not only days, but for weeks or even months resulting in millions of people dying due to mass starvation.
Recently, National Security Agency (NSA) Director Admiral Michael Rogers warned listeners at a cyber-security conference that the threat isn’t a matter of “if“ it will happen, but “when.“
He used the example in which hackers in Ukraine used the Black Energy cyber-weapon to knock out the lights on more than 200,000 people across the region.
While speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, he warned the audience that this will not be the “last we are going to see of this.“
Read more on page two to find out what NSA Director Rogers thinks is the best plan in order to stop any cyberattacks from occurring in the U.S.
THE GRID IS GOING TO GO DOWN ONE DAY!
Great, only the strong will survive! Bye, bye snowflakes
That’s a good one, Art Johnson! It’d be funnier if it weren’t so true.
Ehh…keep on underestimating Trump. It at least gives you something to do.
I fully agree!
It’s about damn time our government starts taking this seriously.
Mike Pace, what does your diatribe on Trump have to do with our power grid? Dude, you’re way off base as to this conversation.
Hardening the power grid is a relatively easy thing to do. They just need to spend the money to do it.
Cynthia Clouatre moral paradox? Is that how you gage your morals? By what others are doing.
Cynthia Clouatre remember one of the greatest quotes of WW11. Uncommon Valor is a common virtue. That was said about the troops. Not the leaders.