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.
Ego?! Did you sleep walk thru Obama, or like Van wrinkle and totally out of it.
Manure stuff
Once this topic is presented it gives deniability to the shadow government and terrorist types to cause such and claim fowl if the finger if blame is pointed at them – the terrorist types will take credit if or if not caused by them – oh well – going to get nasty
Hype to get funding.
This is a crock of$#%&!@*.. “the grid” isn’t as tender and vulnerable as proportion to the fear! B******t trying to sell scare tactic books…
We are so woefully unprepared for something like that it is almost criminal to ourselves!
Well what in the f……. hell are we waiting for , it to happen……stupid$#%&!@*s
Thats the friken truth
American ingenuity and basic capitalist principles would quickly take over. There would be some initial looting rioting and anarchy, but, some quick street justice would rectify those problems. We have a 2nd Amendment for such circumstances .
One of greatest concerns.
More f**e$#%&!@*news from you twits on the left