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.
2-3 smaller ones would have the same effect.
The enemy within. You will be the first to be hunted down!
I agree with his assessment. I’ve hoping the Gov has been doing something to shore it up, but it does not look like it at this point. When it goes down, there will be complete chaos within a week in the cities…
All by design. Bring the people to their knees.
Ding
Mike,u r a scumbag
Wanna try within a couple of hours? People will realize they have no gas or food. The gangs and others will start at once.
These son of a bitches make me sick, we put a man on the moon in 1969, and these$#%&!@*clowns want Americans to believe they’re doing all they can to stop a cyber attack, they don’t want to stop it, they want millions of people to die so they can maintain control.
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I had no idea Obama spent years tracking bin laden and then went and put a bullet in his head how ignorant of me to think it was the cia and our American military that tracked and killed bin laden …. Gary your a putz