{"id":46744,"date":"2019-06-19T07:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T12:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46744"},"modified":"2019-06-19T07:10:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T12:10:36","slug":"all-the-cyber-attack-stories-from-the-past-few-days-cant-be-linkedcan-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46744","title":{"rendered":"All the Cyber Attack Stories from the Past Few Days Can\u2019t Be Linked\u2026Can They?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/cyber-attack-linked\/\">All the Cyber Attack Stories from the Past Few Days Can\u2019t Be Linked\u2026Can They?<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A very important skill for anyone who hopes to be in the know is the ability to put together seemingly unrelated stories for consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past few days, stories about grid incursions, Russians, cyber attacks, and technological failures seemed to be at the top of the headlines. A massive&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/petya-ransomware-deliberate-cyberattack-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cyber attack could happen far more easily<\/a>&nbsp;than most people realize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good folks over in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/op.prepclub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prep Club<\/a>&nbsp;have been posting a lot of interesting links this weekend. Let\u2019s take a peek at each one. All these stories can\u2019t be linked\u2026<em>can they<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The US Is Hacking Russia\u2019s Grid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times reported<\/a>&nbsp;(rather irresponsibly in my opinion) that the United States is escalating their \u201cdigital incursions into Russia\u2019s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin\u201d according to nameless current and former government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, this kind of stuff has been going on for a while. A friend of mine with a military intel background said it\u2019s similar to how we have nukes so that other people with nukes won\u2019t nuke us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the NYT story goes far beyond the mutually assured destruction theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The American strategy has shifted more toward offense, officials say, with the placement of potentially crippling malware inside the Russian system at a depth and with an aggressiveness that had never been tried before. It is intended partly as a warning, and partly to be poised to conduct cyberstrikes if a major conflict broke out between Washington and Moscow\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the Cyber Attack Stories from the Past Few Days Can\u2019t Be Linked\u2026Can They? A very important skill for anyone who hopes to be in the know is the ability to put together seemingly unrelated stories for consideration. 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