As in NSW Australia, Massachusetts
governor wants cyber at cabinet level
It took only one attempt for Russian hackers to make their way into the computer of a Pentagon official. But the attack didn’t come through an email or a file buried within a seemingly innocuous document. A link, attached to a Twitter post put out by a robot account, promised a family-friendly vacation package for the summer. It was the kind of thing anyone might click on, according to the official hit by the attack, who was not authorized to speak publicly about it. That is exactly the problem, Pentagon officials and cybersecurity experts said
The Security Ledger
The United
States should invest resources in preserving aging, analog infrastructure
including telecommunications networks that use copper wire and pneumatic pumps
used to pump water as a hedge against the growing threat of global disruption
resulting from a cyber attack on critical infrastructure, two researchers at
MITRE argue. The researchers, Emily Frye and Quentin Hodgson with The MITRE
Corporation, note that critical infrastructure is increasingly run from
converged IP (Internet Protocol) based networks that are vulnerable to cyber
attack. That includes so-called “lifelines” – essential functions like water,
electricity, communications, transportation and emergency services. That
marks a critical departure from the past when such systems were isolated from
the Internet and other general purpose networks. “Each lifeline rides on, and
is threaded together by, digital systems. And humans have yet to design a
digital system that cannot be compromised,” they write.
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