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.
Let’s start by not letting it happen
Why??? Do your job & protect the U.S. from this type of attack!!! If you can’t do it move over & let someone who can do it!!
He sure doesn’t put much faith in the people who build and maintain the electrical grid. Typical ignorant doom monger response.
Instead of screaming ” the sky is falling!” Work on the fix you morons!
We prefer to keep the federal government out of our business if possible
Not sure of the sources for Rogers and Kopple statements but I have been working protecting the grid for 20 yrs, have never seen Mike or Ted. It is extremely regulated now. Google NERC CIP. We have so many layers of protection it is difficult to get things to work. We worry far more about wayward hunters.
Mike Pace get over it …President Trump is doing great job unlike that idiot we had, that do nothing thing we had for 8 long years !!!!!
This idiot Mike Pace does not even live in the United States!!!
Connie Bickford
I stopped reading this comic story once I saw “thin skinned and sensitive” you have it backwards, who are the ones complaining about everything? Who are the ones being offended? ANOTHER MORON!