Not that long ago the world experienced some ‘hiccups,’ shall we call them, when a failed cybersecurity update courtesy of Cloudstrike failed and destroyed tons of devices and computers, and completely disrupted some commerce, market trading and banking, travel and telecommunications, emergency services, and much more, in what was the largest IT outage ever in history.
And that was just an accident, so we are told. What and if should another concert of errors occur, or God forbid if it is deliberate?
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Recently, The Daily Mail explained in an exclusive post what would happen if an even larger attack or outage on the grid system occurred. Here is what they wrote (excerpts):
Cybercriminals could cripple the US by targeting just 10 critical components in an electrical network, experts have revealed.
The attack would begin with “a series of cascading failures,” first shutting down essential service providers, like 911 call centers and healthcare providers, and then spreading to critical infrastructure. Americans would lose access to energy, water, financial services, public transportation and cell phone networks, resulting in severe ramifications.
Morgan Wright, a former senior advisor in antiterrorism at the U.S. State Department, told DailyMail.com that “civil unrest” and a ‘breakdown in the social order” would soon follow.
Eric O’Neill, a former FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence operative, told DailyMail.com that foreign spies have spent over a decade looking for security holes in infrastructure to leverage for conducting catastrophic cyber attacks.
“They have already found ways to disrupt America’s fuel, power, water, communications, and education systems as they look to exploit our reliance on these essential resources,” he continued.
An attack of this kind would have dire consequences for U.S. citizens, such as even killing Americans on their soil, warned Nicholas Reese, a cyber expert and adjunct instructor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University.
He explained that a cyberattack on 911 call centers would deprive patients of urgent medical care. Meanwhile, hospitals would see a disruption in intensive care units and operating rooms, causing medical equipment to falter and patient deaths.
“Deliberate large-scale attacks on critical infrastructure would not be executed with the goal of inconvenience,” Reese said. “They would be executed to cause domestic turmoil as a means of power projection.”
Describing an attack on this scale as a “significant act of aggression” against America, Reese suggested it would require a serious response from the government. That could mean the nation is dragged into a military conflict with the perpetrator.
Cybercriminals are aware that taking control of essential resources, like energy and water, would be the way to cripple the nation, the experts said.
This was experienced in 2021 when a hacker group known as DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline that supplies oil to much of the US East Coast. The five-day disruption caused localized shortages of gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel, which led to panic-buying as consumers feared gas would run out.
“We saw a microcosm of how citizens would respond during the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack,” explained Wright. “There was a run on gasoline because of a ‘perceived’ shortage of energy, not an actual one. The unrest only took hours to swell because of social media and incorrect reports of what actually happened.”
In light of the Colonial Pipeline chaos, O’Neill believes that a cyberattack on U.S. power supplies would have a similar ripple effect for all Americans.
“Without power, citizens would lose communications, air-conditioning, heat, water when we turn the tap and lights when we flick the switch,” he said. “Business would grind to a halt, finances would be unavailable and hospitals would be unable to provide care, and so much more.”
To conduct such an attack, O’Neill said the perpetrator would likely target the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks, which help manage industrial equipment because they are easy targets due to insufficient cybersecurity and outdated software.
“The orchestrated attack would require numerous, synchronized attacks against different components of the power grid,” he explained. “But with our networked economy and supply chain, taking down just one major section of the US power grid would throw the country into chaos.”
A final element could be physical attacks on American power transmission and switching stations, added O’Neill. “Attackers would only need to target nine or ten key nodes within the United States to potentially collapse the grid,” he said.
While a deliberate cyber attack launched by an enemy state or cyber-criminal group could hinder national infrastructure, an accidental IT outage or system failure would be just as damaging.
These types of outages show how a “lack of resilience” and ‘over-reliance on single sources of technology and software” can disrupt essential industries and the lives of many, explained Wright. “Despite all of the preparedness and threat mitigation, it was an unintentional action that highlighted the weakness in all critical sectors,” he said.
Despite the grave nature of these threats, some believe that the US government isn’t taking them seriously enough.
“The government could certainly do more to prepare the United States for a catastrophic attack, plan for and assess the response to such an attack, and prepare ahead of the attack by hardening our critical infrastructure,” said O’Neill.
When asked how the security of U.S. national infrastructure can be strengthened, O’Neill said more investment and collaboration between the federal government, state officials, and industry are essential steps.
Lawmakers should also compel critical infrastructure companies and agencies to follow strict cybersecurity standards and zero-trust approaches to authenticate outside parties’ identities before granting them access to their computer networks and resources, added O’Neill.
“Grants and funding can be applied by the government for the investment,” he continued. “Key transmission points and power stations must be hardened and made resilient to attack.”
As these threats increase in scale and complexity, O’Neill said a nationwide effort is needed to ensure critical services and infrastructure are resilient enough to “operate under pressure.”
“When a hospital is attacked, it must be able to function without the Internet. Water utilities should be manually manageable when operations centers come under attack,” he concluded. “Power grids should be more redundant and less reliant on aged transmission paths and models. Everything from schools to grocery stores should have backup systems and the ability to disconnect from online portals and third-party applications to continue services.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
To me, this is the mainstream propaganda media spelling out what will probably happen, or at least what the declared narrative will be; and I have no doubt at all that it will be blamed on the likes of Russia, China and Iran. The WEF did a scripted simulation about this called “Cyber Polygon” where it in fact featured Russian hackers wreaking havoc on world IT and grid systems.
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Proverbs 14:15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
It superfluous for me to keep harping on this issue because I do firmly believe that something like what was described in this report will be allowed to take place in the not-so distant future, probably in 2025 (maybe sooner), and that will cause the people to snap to attention, listen and accept WHATEVER the media tells them because they are so panicked.
Just imagine if bank accounts go dry and people are out of money, for example. People would go irate; then the government arrives with the “solution” to blame on some foreign boogiemen – Russia, China, Iran – to justify fighting any war they want fought; and then on the backend introduce digital IDs, CBDCs and tokenization. -I think something like that is VERY likely.
There is not much we can do other than recognize it and do the best that we can to have adequate preparedness and foreknowledge. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
Therefore, I continue to recommend that you have extra dry goods, plenty of water and filtration, ways to make heat and stay cool, extra clothing, medical gear, weapons and ammo, maps, basic tools, fuel, etc. Any little bit is better than none.
Proverbs 21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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When this happens you best believe all the women who are feminists will no longer be feminists and will beg men to fix the infrastructure. Feminism will die the second this occurs.
Yup.
Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. [9] Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. [10] For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
“To be forewarned is to be forearmed”. I literally just said that to someone I warned via email about CBDCs.
Grid goes down, pumps stop working, you’ll have poopy sewage coming up, flooding city streets, then rats and other pests, then sicknesses. Would be prudent to have some kind of bucket toilet for both pee and poop separately, lots of firm garbage bags, lime, kitty litter, ashes or whatever nullifies the stink or “dehydrates” the stool, should people decide to stay inside and make a stand.
Then there’s also the thing of finding a good spot to dig and bury them, which will be difficult if the streets are chaotic, likely you’ll get attacked even if armed. This one of the reasons why it’s so problematic to be in the city when the the hammer’s brought down. Will this happen, sure it could.
Most people have zero clue about what you just said. They just think ‘flush… magic…’ and that’s it. Nope, that’s not how plumbing works. The disease from that alone will kill a lot of people.