Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html

In the department of “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things…”

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I’m waiting for the disclosure of the elite hacking group Fozzie Bear being involved.

(Cyber, Cyber; Waka, Waka.)

ETA: Looks back at article: WaPo. Perfect.

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Oh sure. Bring “management” into it. :wink:

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They’re targeting Bernie?

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Dan Haggerty - Nazi-Elf Hunter!

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Fucking Vermont

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I thought they hadn’t?

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psht… can’t trust that lame stream media…

boingboing is just a bunch of liberals sitting in their mom’s basement writing this stuff.

:wink:

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There’s no good reason to assume Russia was involved. They found some malware on a machine that APT28 uses, but which isn’t exclusively used by them. Unfortunately the (very imperfect) docs the gov’t released as guidance for protecting against APT28 are being interpreted poorly.

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That and someone at the company told WaPo the sensational story and the company came public later clarifying it with a local paper, which is what the Greenwald story is about.

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Well, if you check the timestamp, my post was before the one you cited. In other words, before that was made clear and public.

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Fair enough! I saw this after… so you know how brains make assumptions…

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