Critical Infrastructure Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks, Experts Warn

[lsiebert]

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Critical-Infrastructure-Vulnerable-to-Cyber-Attacks-Experts-Warn-290370921.html

[bediger4000]

The "Project Aurora" mentioned in this article is sometimes cited as possible precursor work to Stuxnet (http://www.npr.org/2011/11/02/141908180/stuxnet-raises-blowb...). Given Stuxnet, DuQu, Flame, Qwerty (http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/regin-malware-unma...) - sometimes thought to be part of Regin, all of which are at least arguably NSA malware, the Feds are aware of infrastructure attacks. Hell, part of the NSA is arguably supposed to be figuring out and protecting us against this kind of infrastructure attack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Struct..., Directorates I and R, at least).

So we conclude that the Feds are at least leaving the flawed "critical infrastructure" in place, of not actively working to insert more vulnerabilities.

The only question is why so very few in the media are calling this suspicious behavior out.

[lsiebert]

Posting this as something to discuss, as presentation of the topic of cyber security in the media, not because I believe that it's good journalism.