blockbuster story. they re stepping up the digital incurrences into the russian power grids as they grib it demonstration they re using new authorities more aggressively. they spoke to source who described american cyberspecialists have impacted computer code into the russian powder grid and other targets. this follows years of public warnings from the department of homeland security and the fbi that russia it solar has inserting maldoes that ware into u.s. power plants, oil and gas pop lynn lines, water supplies and the like. new york times reports that back to 2012 u.s. has probing the russian system, but now they re going so far as to insert mallware into the russian grid. they don t know how deep american officials have bored into the network. that would determine whether or not this would be setting the
to? well, first of all, i think general hertling is smart to say you shouldn t call them attacks. we have deployed cyber-forces in the you know, on the front lines of this battle with the russians that could be activated in the event of a conflict or in retaliation for a russian attack. that is important here. ed idea of the president going to meet with putin with this in the background, what we know is a concern in the intelligence community is the president has revealed classified information to russians before in such private meetings. in the spring of 2017 it happened. there s been a load of wide reporting about this, where he revealed highly classified information about an isis threat and a source that israelis intelligence, it was reported, had inside isis to the russian
noej are not only could they turn the lights off in new york, we could turn the lights off in moscow. it sounds like the defense department didn t believe the president would go along with this. in his many comments he s refused to call russia a threat. it s an interesting dynamic in this. general, is it unusual? it depends, ana, appeared jim has it exactly right. his book a very good on this. these limited stealth operations in the cyberworld have been going on over a decade. it gained a lot of strong in europe t and some of the effects on some of estrongia s infrastructure. so nato has developed in plans, some contingencies. the united states has many, many
called out are you readia for the interference in the election. i think the latest reporting shows as the diplomatic chill continues out in the open, cyber-teams from both sides are buggily preparing for the worst case. that being said, what type of response or escalation should the u.s. expect as a result? it s yesterday to be seen. part of it may actually be an ever by cybercommand to send a signal to the russians, so anytime you see it making its way out into the ether, it gives people cause, but this is something they want the russians to know. we ve been call out letting you know what we re doing, now we want you to know what we re doing as well. it s an escalation back and forth, putting both sides on notice that although you may have made your way into our system and we re also into your
war. it show you there s a level of conflict already under way in cyberspace, but also on a number of other fronds that the american public just isn t aware of. we have known for year that russia has attempted as to, with some successes and china too, i should know to penetrate crucial infrastructure here. this shows the u.s. respondings, planting weapons, malware within the russian power grid that in the event of a conflict, one, or two, just to send a warning to russia you mess with you, we re going to mess back with you.