U.S. officials say Russian government hackers...

[Benton]

(07-09-2017, 02:23 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Breath deep and focus on the two most important words... "business systems"... of US Nuclear Power. Not operational systems.

So they hacked into the system that they use when they need to place an order to restock the snack machines, or order more toilet paper, or put out a memo that Friday is the day you can wear your local sports team's shirt.

Most important part of that article:


But you can be damn sure that there's going to be a ton of people resharing this article all over the internet, mongering up fear that the Russians are going to blow us all up with our own nuclear power plants.

From what I understand they weren't looking into vending machine requests but trying to gauge what our nuclear community is up to based off of money trails. To sum it up in a single word, "spying."

The operational networks should be less of an issue as presumably they have better security.