OBAMA’S LEGACY — LAYING AMERICA OPEN TO ITS ENEMIES: Records: Energy Department struck by cyber attacks. “Incident reports submitted by federal officials and contractors since late 2010 to the Energy Department’s Joint Cybersecurity Coordination Center shows a near-consistent barrage of attempts to breach the security of critical information systems that contain sensitive data about the nation’s power grid, nuclear weapons stockpile and energy labs. . . . The National Nuclear Security Administration, a semi-autonomous agency within the Energy Department responsible for managing and securing the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile, experienced 19 successful attacks during the four-year period, records show.”
Attackers got root 53 times, but DoE won’t say if they got anything critical. Hint: Yes, yes they did. This is another first-order debacle, but it won’t get the attention it deserves because we’re currently in such a debacle-rich environment.
Related: What if Pearl Harbor happened and nobody noticed? In cyberwar, the U.S. doesn’t have an edge.