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Russia Hacks Into U.S. Power Plants, But Nuclear Reactors Should Be Impervious

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesc...s-into-u-s-nuclear-power-plants/#20ce907e57b9

According to an alert from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team yesterday, Russia has hacked into many of our government entities and domestic companies in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and critical manufacturing sectors – essentially most of what makes our country go.
This is not new -- Russia seems to have made hacking America its favorite past-time, most notably in its efforts to impact the 2016 presidential campaign. They’ve been hacking into our electric grid for some time. It’s just that we haven’t done much to stop it or to respond in any potent fashion.
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I'll just bet Comrade Trump gave them the password.
 
Cardinal said:
But Trump believed Putin when he said he wasn't involved in any hacking efforts.
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And you believed the media when they told you that Russia hacked DNC, even though numerous men expert in the field pointed out the material was not hacked, but rather leaked. Am I right?
 
American said:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesc...s-into-u-s-nuclear-power-plants/#20ce907e57b9


I'll just bet Comrade Trump gave them the password.
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No, but he sure as heck has not done a thing about any of Russian actions, makes one wonder why that is.
I have pointed out these attempts by Russia to hack into or power grid and most simply ignore it, but once again I will remind the readers, there is only One reason for Russia to want to be able to do this, to me it is nothing less than an act of War.
 
jdog21 said:
I've ran a nuclear power plant, One would have extreme trouble to hack into a nuclear plants operating system due to the computer systems not being connected to the internet.
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The article says that. :thumbs:
 
Casper said:
No, but he sure as heck has not done a thing about any of Russian actions, makes one wonder why that is.
I have pointed out these attempts by Russia to hack into or power grid and most simply ignore it, but once again I will remind the readers, there is only One reason for Russia to want to be able to do this, to me it is nothing less than an act of War.
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Is Trump the first president not to try and stop the hacks? BTW, it's actually the power plants duty to do that.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Most US nuclear plants use legacy equipment that would be difficult to hack. However, even nuclear plants need power to operate from the US power grid, which is very vulnerable to Russian cyber-attack.
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Is it? How?
 
American said:
Is Trump the first president not to try and stop the hacks? BTW, it's actually the power plants duty to do that.
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Nope, does not excuse the current one not doing something either. Nope, they have no "duty" they are private companies not government agencies.
 
American said:
The article says that. :thumbs:
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Actually is doesn't. I've read the 3 articles you posted and I didn't see were it mentions this.
Also in the US-CERT article it talks about spyware and phishing but it fails to tell you the correlation. If you had spyware and phishing it would be on the computer that was connected to the internet were employees conduct other business. No employee can operate a generating plant and read email or go online through the same computer.
I do find it funny that they posted evidence of a screen shot of the gas turbine portion of a combine cycle plant, which more then likely came from the training program on the internet connected computer. To the their intent I do not know. The only way to get into a SCADA computer would be by a foreign object like a USB. Which means a complicit actor or a unknowing employee violating protocols that prohibits such a thing.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Most US nuclear plants use legacy equipment that would be difficult to hack. However, even nuclear plants need power to operate from the US power grid, which is very vulnerable to Russian cyber-attack.
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Just playing devils advocate here, nuclear plants supply their own power to operate their auxiliary equipment even thou they are set up to take power from grid to supply power for these auxiliary equipment its not the primary source.
 
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