U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid
"For the past year, energy companies in the United States and oil and gas operators across North America discovered their networks had been examined by the same Russian hackers who successfully dismantled the safety systems in 2017 at Petro Rabigh, a Saudi petrochemical plant and oil refinery."Why are these systems even connected to the internet?Decades ago, creating such connections might have been a forgivable oversight, since the internet was a much more peaceful place, and the idea of cyberattacks might have seemed like paranoid science fiction.Today such attacks are happening in front of our noses and these systems are still connected to the internet?It really boggles the mind.