The U.S. has sweeping vulnerabilities, but experts say there may not be an attack

I want to pass along an article that caught my attention when I saw the news digest from last week. This CNN article is titled US has ‘significant’ cyber vulnerabilities, but a sweeping Russian cyberattack is unlikely which was a great article for CNN to have.

While I can see sone of the points within this article, there could be, if hackers wanted, some sort of problem. Reading this could put minds like mine better at easem, for a big time cyberattack on the U.S,. infrastructure.

It would not put it passt this Russian president to do something if he felt threatened enough, and as the article says, they’ve already been targeting us in limited scale and the Colonial Pipeline and the Florida water issue were just small problems.

While the Colonial Pipeline was more of a problem as it was a ransomware attack, experts indicate that we need to be more concerned about that shutting off infrastructure than influences like Russia.

They are more than capable of doing whatever they want, and the article talks about several attacks within the past 5-10 years that were done, some were not knowmn to be Russian, but we can’t just say Russia is the biggest problem.

The article points out that we could be sitting in some network waiting to do something that someone tells us to do. Me … I’m not going to sit in anyone’s network that I don’t belong. It would be too risky.

Thoughts on this article? Sound off in the comments.