Nicholas Kristof has a book preview and warning on p. A19 of
the Thursday, July 5, 2018 New York Tines, the opinion article titled “To Hackers, We’reBambi in the Woods.”
The book at issue is “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and
Fear in the Cyber Age”, by Kristof’s “Times colleague” David Sanger, from Crown
publishers, about 380 pages, somewhat expensive. I have just ordered it from Amazon.
The book’s premise seems to be that the cyber attacks
already launched, such as against Ukraine’s power grid and then Russia’s hack
in 2015 of the Democrats, may presage a massive cyber attack against the US
power grid, such as Ted Koppel had described in “Lights Out” (Nov. 10,
2015). North Korea’s attack on Sony in
2014 counts, also.
Of course, I’ve been much more concerned about the possibility
of an EMP attack, probably from a high altitude nuclear blast, than a massive
cyber attack on facilities that are not supposed to be connected to the public
Internet. An E1 (which knocks out electronics) is easier to carry out than an E3 (which knocks out the actual power transformers), and E1 weapons could be non-nuclear.
But the article insists the Russians planted malware in our
grid in 2015. Sinclair Broadcasting has also issued such stories.
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