We all heard about the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that garnered DarkSide, the hackers, 4.4 million dollars. It would take a much stronger message from the White House to get him to do anything, and that’s not likely to happen under the current leadership. As it stands, the hackers are weakening the United States and enriching his country. That’s not a bit surprising, as there is no impetus for him to do so. Putin has made it relatively clear that he will not do anything about these hackers. Then they would have lost all their business records from the backup to the current day. There’s no telling how far back a company would have to go, rebuilding their records, to get to the point where their records were clean. Part of the strategy behind the ransomware attacks is that the hackers wait months after infecting the company’s database before making their ransom demands. According to his sources in network security, Russian hackers are making much more money off of hacking into our nation’s businesses than anyone realizes.īefore you go off thinking that those attacks shouldn’t be any big deal and all that companies would have to do is restore their backups, and they could be up and running again, think again. But my son, who works in IT security, has let me in on what’s going on. Companies who have been affected by the attacks essentially keep their problems secret, preferring not to let investors and the general public know about it.
There have been many more of these ransomware attacks than most people realize.
Cold war real war upgrade#
Recently, a joint advisory of the FBI, NSA, and CSIA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) warned companies that operate critical infrastructure to upgrade their resilience against cyberattacks.Ĭonsidering how many ransomware attacks have been against major American corporations, I think that’s a warning that people need to take seriously. Pretty much all the multi-million dollar cyberattacks on our businesses have been from Russia. China invented this field of conflict, and Russia has invested a lot into it too. Secondly, the real danger isn’t intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) carrying nuclear bombs but cyber warfare. Neither is a superpower in the same sense that the old Soviet Union was, but together they are more than we can probably take on. First, there are two players on the other side Russia and China. Today’s cold war has those same two ingredients, with a few noted exceptions. The Soviet Union put a lot of effort into causing unrest in those countries just so that the United States would have to send advisors, peacekeepers, military hardware, and humanitarian aid to those countries. The “first world” was the United States and her allies the “second world” was the Soviet Union and her allies, and the “third world” was the battleground of ideas. The term “third world country” originally referred to those countries that the two big superpowers were trying to influence, as they didn’t fall into either camp.
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was the official name for a policy that amounted to nothing more than “you destroy us, and we’ll destroy you in retaliation.” While all this was going on, the Soviet Union and the United States were busy in third-world countries, trying to influence the people and their politics to lean towards one side or another. Two predominant things were happening in that old cold war the standoff between the now-defunct Soviet Union and NATO, with nuclear arms as the big trump card on both sides.
Nevertheless, the cold war we are in today is just as real and just as dangerous as the one I grew up in. With the media kowtowing to the very countries with which we are in this conflict, it’s no surprise that most people don’t realize what’s happening. I think we’ve been in it for some years now, but it was never declared, making it easy to overlook. The news media isn’t talking about it yet, but it appears that we are now in a new cold war.
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