Cyber Attacks and losses to the Public

[AZgl1800]

To those in the Eastern half of the United States of America, it is well known how quickly shutting down just one major petroleum pipeline ( Colonial Pipeline ) can effect the rest of the country. I live in Oklahoma, dead center from East coast to West coast, our fuel prices doubled within one week.

Within 24 hours, gas stations ran out of fuel, with 48 hours, food stores started having shortages because truckers could not get access to Diesel fuel to operate their Semi-rigs to deliver product to end destinations.

that was only the beginning, as the shortage of fuel increased, it snowballed into shortages everywhere, medical supplies, Oxygen for patients, and lots more....

Here in Oklahoma, grocery stores started experiencing huge shortages of just about everything.
Milk doubled in price, beef prices nearly tripled here.

In an attempt to be better prepared for future Cyber hacks, our nation is gearing up to find out ways to defend against this type of Nation State Warfare. it is Nation State, that has been proven, it is not just a hand full of kids playing with computers.
It will never be perfect, but you have to start somewhere.

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What we all need to start protecting, is our Public Utilities, in every country in the world, not just one little piece of the country.

Early this spring, the State of Texas had a total shutdown on the electric grid, due to a hurricane and severe flooding.
that alone showed us that just because Texas had never, ever, once, had a Public Electric Grid total shutdown, that it can't happen. It did, and it really woke up a lot of people...

Some went to prison over that miscue because they did not have a plan to handle such an event.

[DisturbedDragon]

I"ll give you the US is in s a bad way for proper cybersecurity. Our current idiot in chief is the reason for most of the issues that cascaded the land.

I live in Texas and there was no state-wide power outage. Curious where you heard this.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I'm still amazed many critical infrastructures don't have backups in place and have remote emergency systems they can switch to in an emergency. The electric/irrigation water utility I worked for had those protections. They would test the out of State emergency system a least once or twice a year and the only thing users would notice was a slight slowdown in operations.

[AZgl1800]

I"ll give you the US is in s a bad way for proper cybersecurity. Our current idiot in chief is the reason for most of the issues that cascaded the land.

I live in Texas and there was no state-wide power outage. Curious where you heard this.

Mass Media of course, as I currently live 200 miles north of the Texas border, I had no way to know the difference.

I have family in Wichita Falls, Iowa Park, Denison, Tyler,and have yet to hear from any of them... shsssh!!!

[ajgringo619]

What we need is to have redundant systems in every major part of our infrastructure. There is no way in hell that our entire country should have suffered because of one pipeline going down. Same crap happens out here all the time because we haven't built any new power plants or oil refineries in ages.