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Posted: January 16 2016 at 6:54am |
https://globalvoices.org/2016/01/08/russian-hackers-behind-attack-on-ukraines-power-grid-researchers-claim/
Saturday, 16 January 2016 - monitoring The hacking attack left thousands of citizens in western Ukraine without power in December. Image by Juanedc on Flickr, CC BY 2.0. The alleged cyber-attack that led to a temporary outage of the Ukrainian power grid was likely perpetuated by Russian hackers, according to US researchers. The cybersecurity research team iSIGHT Partners told Infosecurity Magazine that it was the work of the Russian hacker collective known as the Sandworm Team. Ukraine’s state security service has also blamed Russia for the blackout in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk region on December 23 that affected about 80,000 citizens. At the time, a local power company, Prycarpattyaoblenergo (read more on link) Medclinician |
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"temporary outage of the Ukrainian
power grid was likely perpetuated by Russian hackers, according to US
researchers."
What they mean is they don't know how it occurred but let's blame the Russians anyway, looking at the state of Ukraine right now it seems like poor maintenance is the likely cause here. But I'll bet one thing in Ukraine that is properly maintained is the US Bioweapons lab. |
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I assume that the recent posts shared by someone in the guest group are related (if I'm wrong, forgive me).
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'Tis true
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"Buy it cheap. Stack it deep"
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Then guest would have to admit to himself he's a member here, and he can't make that leap.
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