Loading 4 Votes - +  American Power Grid Allegedly Compromised
The Internet is such a fragile creation and yet it is the
mechanism by which so many stalwart entities of our modern
infrastructure have been rendered equally fragile. Despite the
passage of more than a decade since L0pht testified before
congress that the entire Internet could be crippled in 30
minutes, the Internet has continued to become entwined into the
heart of our civilization with seemingly no real improvement on
security. Every time security seems to improve, the
vulnerabilities and exploits to thwart them continue to
materialize. The latest revelation of the infrastructure’s
weakness is a report indicating the electrical grid has been
completely compromised by coordinated attacks originating from
China and Russia. It was the intelligence agencies monitoring
network activity that actually detected the intrusions, not the
IT from the targets themselves. Reports indicate that while some
intrusions were stopped, cooperating targets in the i