Back Office and Hackers

I found something interesting that  while employees of the organization are going home to their families and love ones from a hard day's work and enjoying their weekend. Somewhere from around the world hackers, cyber criminals, state-sponsored rogue governments terrorist networks are hard at work and compromising our control grid and networks from public and private organizations damaging our national security. In order to prevent this type of cyber attacks organizations need to create an 24/7 back office support and security teams to report incident logs, document evidence, trace IP addresses from national origins by looking at certain types of viruses, malware, phishing tools.To detect certain patterns  Cyber attacks are happening everyday, every second, every hour of the day and yes it happens at 1 in morning as well because cyber criminals never sleep or rest until the task is completed. Also the cyber attacks is not always from the outside sometimes they the black hats have inside help from rogue employees within the organizations as well because they want to tear it down from within. The reasons why rogue employees may vary from a layoff, not getting promoted, pay issues, and etc. If you look at the what employees are capable of they can place logic bombs within the company or government networks with a set time limit  so when they leave the building and everyone don't notice that their systems and workstations are being compromised by the rogue employees.

Take a look at my college paper called JM's Cyber Solutions this paper will take you and having a great understanding on cyber security in my next blog post.

PowerGrid and Hacking

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Hackers are already setting their sights if not already our nation's power grids and industrial infrastructure in the US it will be long before the power might go out not for an 30 minutes or an hour, but for months on end. Can you imagine a nation without power government services will be severed grind to an halt, medical centers and services will be on back up power that last for days not months, military defenses will be shut down against foreign and domestic terror attacks, businesses will be harmed due to lack of logistics and shipping their products to customers. Oh yes even the stock market i.e. financial institutions and investing houses will be in the red and will cause an economic calamity for world economy will be damaged beyond repair. If you thinking this is some type of science fiction movie or playing the worse case situation in Zero day attacks in a movie than you are terrible mistaken. If the federal government does not taken steps in investing and modernizing into our aging infrastructure than we are in trouble.

The federal government has to understand that our current power grids, power plants, and industrial controls are over 30 years old and they need serious upgrades to make them stronger against hackers, cyber-terrorists, government sponsor hackers, rogue employees, and bad actors in the cyber world who want to do us harm in compromising our national security. Think about it the age of the standing armies of the past in warfare are the thing of the past the new threat is the cyber armies both foreign and domestic threats. If a power outrage does happen for example the federal government must coordinate their resources to assist state and local government and containing the crisis and restore power ASAP and restore public confidence with the American people cyberattacks are inevitable, but at least minimum the threats and weaknesses in the power grids by doing an major  over haul in the entire power grid system. Yes it will cost a lot of money by investing to modernize the power system, but at the same time we cannot afford a massive power outage like for example New York City in 2003 or it was known as the Northeast Blackout there is an old saying," Those we don't know history are condemn to repeat it." Here is an article on the subject down below for reader about massive power outages on power grids.


http://www.computerworld.com/article/3056617/security/cyberattack-could-knock-out-huge-chunk-of-us-electric-grid.html

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2472552/security0/nyc-goes-dark--secret-demo-for-senators-simulated-cyberattack-on-power-grid.html

Can Elections be Hacked?

The way everyone has been talking about data and privacy in Information Technology Security in protecting our sensitive information from cyber criminals and hackers the election comes to mind.  Nothing is safe and secure any more in the cyber security realm and people and politicians needs to realize that their data is not secure. Speaking of which that voter information has been affected in the voting process. We know that most counties in the US has their voter information on private sensitive information like addresses, social security numbers, political party information, phone numbers, and etc. Now what if that information got into the wrong hands by hackers in stealing their identities for criminal purporses.

We have to understand that nothing is secure in cyber space and that including state, federal, county, and city elections. We are not talking about hacking the votes here, but we are talking about campaign information websites, memos, strategies, talking points from candidates on their opponents, and etc. Think about it for a moment what if a hacker creates a fake website of a candidate that the voter wants information on before he or she votes and they click on the website and it redirects them to another site the hackers has make and in order for them to log out of the site they must give their password to get out. Thus leading the hacker to hacked into the victims personal and sensitive accounts like banking, emails, social security numbers, and the list goes on. Check two these two articles on this topic there are more but you have to Google search them tune in next time on Cyber Brotha peace.

Hackers and US elections:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3016287/security/hackers-likely-to-target-a-us-election-next-year.html


DNC Data Breach:

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/fallout-continues-democratic-data-breach-n484556