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Doesn't it often seem like most - individual people and corporations - aren't taking the threat seriously? I keep getting businesses asking me for "security" information, and they don't seem to understand that the threat isn't from someone targeting me - the problem is people targeting the corporation.
As a funny detail, this article was also in the Kyiv Post.
Are We Waiting for Everyone to Get Hacked?
It’s been almost a decade since Leon Panetta, then the secretary of defense, warned of an impending “Cyber Pearl Harbor.” He didn’t want to be right.
Ransomware attacks are striking every eight minutes, crippling hospitals, police departments, NBA basketball and minor league baseball teams, even ferries to Martha’s Vineyard.
By Nicole Perlroth
Leon Panetta is one of the few US government officials who can look around at the nation’s rolling cyber disasters and justifiably say, “I told you so.” In a 2012 speech that many derided as hyperbolic, the former secretary of defense was among the first senior leaders to warn us, in the most sober of terms, that this would happen. He didn’t foretell every detail, and some of his graver predictions have yet to play out. But the stark vision he described is veering dangerously close to the reality we are living with now.
In the past few months, hackers were caught messing with the chemical controls at a water treatment plant in Florida, in what appeared to be an attempt to contaminate the water supply just before Super Bowl weekend in Tampa. Ransomware attacks are striking every eight minutes, crippling hospitals, police departments, NBA basketball and minor league baseball teams, even ferries to Martha’s Vineyard.
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What are we paying our piece of crap government for? The biggest "intelligence agencies" in history and they cant do a gd dm thing right but investigate nooses and spy on their ex's.
We better pass some new black hole budget to fight this threat (with lots of pork and irs agents)
I think it will take something more serious, sort of like a 9/11 event, to wake everyone up and realize that we can no longer take cyber security for granted anymore.
The experts have know for many years now that we are vulnerable, and it keeps them up at night. But the vast majority of Americans don’t worry at all. They will someday, that’s a given.
Are we waiting for everyone to get hacked, yes. We should have acted fast more swiftly with Russia over the oil pipeline ransomware attack. To me it is similar to an act of war and should be treated as such. Why, it is economic terrorism.
I think it will take something more serious, sort of like a 9/11 event, to wake everyone up and realize that we can no longer take cyber security for granted anymore.
The experts have know for many years now that we are vulnerable, and it keeps them up at night. But the vast majority of Americans don’t worry at all. They will someday, that’s a given.
That should have been the pipeline case. It wasn't. I honestly think that this is one of the things that Trump set us back with. Russia is not an ally. They are more or less enemies who look dke rhetoric right opportunity to strike like a snake. They did.
Reducing internet use is like reducing car use. Both are inevitable, but reducing now is difficult since the infrastructure of the internet and cars are sunk costs that squeezed out other options we had before internet and cars.
That's what happens when you still use Windows 95 with the password "admin" (without quotation marks)
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(with lots of pork and irs agents)
