The U.S. government is in the dark when it comes to cyber attacks.
Source: Bryce Baschuk | NPR
Imagine waking up in the morning and your electricity is out. No lights, no heat and no computers. You try to turn on your cell phone but the network is down and so is your access to the Internet. You suddenly feel alone and afraid.
An army of foreign computer hackers has brought down America’s power grid and government operations.
According to cyber security advisors this kind of scenario is very real and the U.S. is unprepared to defend itself.
Cyber sieges do happen and can have a crippling effect on national defense. In August of 2008, Russia launched a cyber attack on the national websites of Georgia, its neighboring country. These attacks coincided with Russia’s military campaign in the South Ossetia region. The attacks debilitated Georgian news and government websites and marked one of the first cyber/military wars in modern history.