Saturday, December 19, 2020

 the tv just told us to be more afraid because the russians, or some other foreign entity wishing to take away your pocket phone and car just got caught hacking 'official' computers so run around and set your hair on fire, or consider the other possibilities presented in this essay;

Right now, we are in a cyber war. Have you heard the news about the discovery of massive sophisticated hacking infiltration into the US government and elsewhere?

“SolarWinds, an IT company that runs network management systems whose thousands of clients include the Justice Department, NASA, the Pentagon, and the State Department, acknowledged that its systems had been compromised.” reported everywhere…

In the days after the November presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said it was the “most secure in American history” and that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised” as President Trump pushed claims that the election was rigged in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.

“Nation State” Cyber Attack

Now it is revealed there has been a massive “nation state” type ongoing cyber attack / Trojan horse insertion / malware / data theft and yet unknown details into virtually all of government!

A web cache of SolarWinds’s website from Monday shows a “customers” page that 300,000 customers were affected including “more than 425 of the US Fortune 500,” the 10 biggest telecommunications companies in the U.S., “all five branches” of the U.S. military, and a number of different government agencies — including the State Department, National Security Agency, Justice Department, and the Office of the President. That list is now gone.

Let that sink in! This is serious!

This is big, folks. One wonders why this information was just released to the public........read more.......

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