The attacks were more advanced than previous efforts, with the intruders gaining access to power grid operation centers, giving them the ability to ‘flip the switch’ if they wanted to introduce a series of blackouts, according to experts. It would have been a story worth focusing on. Last fall, on the day that the headlines were filled with President Donald Trump’s order to end the DACA program, security firm Symantec identified a string of attacks against energy companies in the U.S. A unanimous IC finding attributed the attacks to Russia. They probed the system, but didn’t do anything, which led some experts to believe it may have been a test run.Īnd of course, there was the 2016 hack targeting the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee and attacks that probed some voting equipment. In 2013, hackers used a cellular modem to gain access to a New York dam. And there is a lot of evidence that their capabilities are increasing.Ī series of attacks on American banks and energy companies in the Persian Gulf from 2011 to 2013 slowed the websites of companies like Bank of America, JP Morgan, Sun Trust Banks and Capital One. A range of adversaries, most often led by nation-states, never takes time to stop for U.S. They are the components of our infrastructure that are vital to the way we live: the power grid, the financial system, transportation, medical, industrial manufacturing and election systems.
critical infrastructure systems have been under persistent attack for years. One thing always in the back of my mind, as a former intelligence correspondent and now publisher of a national-security focused website, is the U.S.
During times when the country expresses passionate opinions over the politics of the day, I wonder what U.S.
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