My company is under a cyber attack. My computer has been off for a week and my ability to do business is grinding to a halt. I don’t know who the attacker is, but I am mindful of a huge story from December and January.
Russia successfully massively infiltrated America’s cyberworlds - the U S Military, State Department, White House, NSA, most Fortune 500 companies, the largest Accounting firms, Universities, etc. It put a “backdoor” “zero-day” software into a product called “Solar Winds” routine update that affected 18,000 customers. This happened in March 2020. Catastrophic. What else happened that March?
Oh yes, The Trump Administration dramatically slashed the budget for CISA (Cybersecurity And Infrastructure Security Agency). I have long thought it was blindingly obvious that Trump was/is a Russian agent under the control of the FSR (KGB)
I have just started a book about Russia’s cyberwarfare - “This is How They Tell Me the World Ends” by Nicole Perlroth. Terrifying.
Russia warmed up and tried out their weapons on poor little Ukraine - shut down the power grid in December - twice, shut down a nuclear power system to where they had no idea what’s was happening to the plant and couldn’t even measure radiation. The plant tech got on a loudspeaker “...and told anyone who could hear to rip their computers out of the wall”
I don’t know that Russia is attacking my smallish corporation. Maybe we are just collateral damage of a larger American target, or maybe it’s not Russia at all.
But the recent devastation of Texas when Climate Change driven cold shut down their power, we can see how vulnerable our power grids are. The trouble is a cyber attack won’t be cured by warm weather.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, an attempted violent overthrow of an election, and escalating Climate Change America is in a strange place.
We are very vulnerable.
