Foreign Hackers Targeting U.S. Utilities In Cyber Attacks

[Malsua]

Maybe its time to start thinking about disconnecting vital infrastructures from the internet.

Or at least centralize the reporting and control separate from the actual equipment. You have a computer that interacts with the equipment rather than having the equipment plugged straight to the internet. First the bad guys have to get through the firewalls, then compromise the command and control computer. You then watch one computer instead of 100s of devices.

[catfish]

Or at least centralize the reporting and control separate from the actual equipment. You have a computer that interacts with the equipment rather than having the equipment plugged straight to the internet. First the bad guys have to get through the firewalls, then compromise the command and control computer. You then watch one computer instead of 100s of devices.

I think centralizing would at least be better than what we are doing now. Current conditions leave us very vulnerability. Frontline did a story about hackers attacking power plants that was very interesting. The Frontline story dovetails nicely with this report of hackers attacking our water supply. This time its a water pump, next time it is an electrical generator being burned up.