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  Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 11:31 -0600
    Re: Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks Helmut Wabnig <hwabnig@.- --- -.dotat> - 2016-01-14 18:48 +0100
    Re: Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-14 18:01 +0000
    Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 10:31 -0800
      Re: Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 13:40 -0500
    Re: Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 13:48 -0800

#545374 — Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks

Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-power-grid-vulnerable-foreign-hacks.html


> Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had
> snatched a California university's housing files when he stumbled
> into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the
> networks running the United States power grid.
>
> Digital clues pointed to Iranian hackers. And Wallace found that they
> had already taken passwords, as well as engineering drawings of
> dozens of power plants, at least one with the title "Mission
> Critical." The drawings were so detailed that experts say skilled
> attackers could have used them, along with other tools and malicious
> code, to knock out electricity flowing to millions of homes.
>
> Wallace was astonished. But this breach, The Associated Press has
> found, was not unique.
>
> About a dozen times in the last decade, sophisticated foreign hackers
> have gained enough remote access to control the operations networks
> that keep the lights on, according to top experts who spoke only on
> condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject
> matter.

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#545385

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:31:31 -0600, Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-power-grid-vulnerable-foreign-hacks.html
>
>
>> Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had
>> snatched a California university's housing files when he stumbled
>> into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the
>> networks running the United States power grid.
>>
>> Digital clues pointed to Iranian hackers. And Wallace found that they
>> had already taken passwords, as well as engineering drawings of
>> dozens of power plants, at least one with the title "Mission
>> Critical." The drawings were so detailed that experts say skilled
>> attackers could have used them, along with other tools and malicious
>> code, to knock out electricity flowing to millions of homes.
>>
>> Wallace was astonished. But this breach, The Associated Press has
>> found, was not unique.
>>
>> About a dozen times in the last decade, sophisticated foreign hackers
>> have gained enough remote access to control the operations networks
>> that keep the lights on, according to top experts who spoke only on
>> condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject
>> matter.


Europe has the same dangers to await.
If I guess right, blowing up about 5 power line masts
will darken Europe, because it is strongly dependent 
on North-South connections.

w.

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#545391

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-power-grid-vulnerable-foreign-hacks.html
> 
> 
>> Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had
>> snatched a California university's housing files when he stumbled
>> into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the
>> networks running the United States power grid.
>>
>> Digital clues pointed to Iranian hackers. And Wallace found that they
>> had already taken passwords, as well as engineering drawings of
>> dozens of power plants, at least one with the title "Mission
>> Critical." The drawings were so detailed that experts say skilled
>> attackers could have used them, along with other tools and malicious
>> code, to knock out electricity flowing to millions of homes.
>>
>> Wallace was astonished. But this breach, The Associated Press has
>> found, was not unique.
>>
>> About a dozen times in the last decade, sophisticated foreign hackers
>> have gained enough remote access to control the operations networks
>> that keep the lights on, according to top experts who spoke only on
>> condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject
>> matter.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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#545406

Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
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Solution? Seek out these potential hackers, then kill them.

Any more problems I can help solve?

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#545414

On 01/14/2016 01:31 PM, HVAC wrote:
> Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
> ----------
>
> Solution? Seek out these potential hackers, then kill them.
>
> Any more problems I can help solve?
>
Even better: Seek out all Muslims. Kill them. What does Obama know?

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#545488

On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 9:31:34 AM UTC-8, Sam Wormley wrote:
> Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
> > http://phys.org/news/2015-12-power-grid-vulnerable-foreign-hacks.html
> 
> 
> > Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had
> > snatched a California university's housing files when he stumbled
> > into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the
> > networks running the United States power grid.
> >
> > Digital clues pointed to Iranian hackers. And Wallace found that they
> > had already taken passwords, as well as engineering drawings of
> > dozens of power plants, at least one with the title "Mission
> > Critical." The drawings were so detailed that experts say skilled
> > attackers could have used them, along with other tools and malicious
> > code, to knock out electricity flowing to millions of homes.
> >
> > Wallace was astonished. But this breach, The Associated Press has
> > found, was not unique.
> >
> > About a dozen times in the last decade, sophisticated foreign hackers
> > have gained enough remote access to control the operations networks
> > that keep the lights on, according to top experts who spoke only on
> > condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject
> > matter.
> 
> -- 
> 
> sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated
> to the discussion of physics, news from the physics
> community, and physics-related social issues.

I posted 17 years ago after our last major black out our grid is our weak spot.Small bomb and its lights out.TreBert

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