podfish
01-20-2017, 08:29 AM
it's good to know that we've got people protecting us from at least SOME of the dangers of the times:
... The damage done by cyber attacks, both real (Stuxnet's destruction of Iranian uranium enrichment centrifuges and a few brief power outages alleged to have been caused by Russian hackers using BlackEnergy malware) and imagined or exaggerated (the Iranian "attack" on a broken flood control dam in Rye, New York) (https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/dam-you-justice-dept-to-indict-iranians-for-probing-flood-control-network/), cannot begin to measure up to an even more significant cyber-threat—squirrels.
That was the message delivered at the Shmoocon security conference on Friday by Cris "SpaceRogue" Thomas, former member of the L0pht Heavy Industries hacking collective and now a security researcher at Tenable. In his presentation—entitled, "35 Years of Cyberwar: The Squirrels Are Winning"—SpaceRogue revealed the scale of the squirrelly threat to worldwide critical infrastructure by presenting data gathered by CyberSquirrel 1, a project that gathers information on animal-induced infrastructure outages collected from sources on the Internet.
this is a way I measure progress -- would this have made any sense at all if published a few years ago? Lucky we've got "SpaceRogue" Thomas on our side!
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/whos-winning-the-cyber-war-the-squirrels-of-course/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJRNE1qazVORFptTlRabCIsInQiOiJpS0pUS21walpqSmx6KzRkRmpsTmpXbFpcL2M2czVGXC9udTA5R0FpUjN3NWJ6Z3VhVkw4U1B4M21qSWtmOXg3ZnN2WG5YSGVvS1EwW lpicUZVZHdVRVwvb2tOYUd1dElkWGt6ZGR6czhTQmdEVnBueFR5NlM5M3ozZnFDXC9zVGk5NGoifQ%3D%3D
... The damage done by cyber attacks, both real (Stuxnet's destruction of Iranian uranium enrichment centrifuges and a few brief power outages alleged to have been caused by Russian hackers using BlackEnergy malware) and imagined or exaggerated (the Iranian "attack" on a broken flood control dam in Rye, New York) (https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/dam-you-justice-dept-to-indict-iranians-for-probing-flood-control-network/), cannot begin to measure up to an even more significant cyber-threat—squirrels.
That was the message delivered at the Shmoocon security conference on Friday by Cris "SpaceRogue" Thomas, former member of the L0pht Heavy Industries hacking collective and now a security researcher at Tenable. In his presentation—entitled, "35 Years of Cyberwar: The Squirrels Are Winning"—SpaceRogue revealed the scale of the squirrelly threat to worldwide critical infrastructure by presenting data gathered by CyberSquirrel 1, a project that gathers information on animal-induced infrastructure outages collected from sources on the Internet.
this is a way I measure progress -- would this have made any sense at all if published a few years ago? Lucky we've got "SpaceRogue" Thomas on our side!
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/whos-winning-the-cyber-war-the-squirrels-of-course/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJRNE1qazVORFptTlRabCIsInQiOiJpS0pUS21walpqSmx6KzRkRmpsTmpXbFpcL2M2czVGXC9udTA5R0FpUjN3NWJ6Z3VhVkw4U1B4M21qSWtmOXg3ZnN2WG5YSGVvS1EwW lpicUZVZHdVRVwvb2tOYUd1dElkWGt6ZGR6czhTQmdEVnBueFR5NlM5M3ozZnFDXC9zVGk5NGoifQ%3D%3D