Understandable one. this is a fairly easy one for those of us who aren t that tech minded about these things, i know service towards consumers be hard. but in this case, all of us get it. the intended harm here is shutting off the electricity in the country. something that we can all easily relate to, it s something where we can all understand exactly how bad the threat would be. beyond that, not for nothing, the malware that russia is using here to carry out these attacks, is something called it was one i guess in 2015 and 2016, it s now and as these things go, that s kind of a memorable name. kind of speaks for itself in terms of what it is intended to do but then as we ve been following the story from this morning into today. the story took another twist tonight. twists that brings that much closer to home. tonight, this joint security alert has been issued by the fbi, the nsa, national security
Service towards consumers be hard. but in this case, all of us get it. the intended harm here is shutting off the electricity in the country. something that we can all easily relate to, it s something where we can all understand exactly how bad the threat would be. beyond that, not for nothing, the malware that russia is using here to carry out these attacks, is something called it was one i guess in 2015 and 2016, it s now and as these things go, that s kind of a memorable name. kind of speaks for itself in terms of what it is intended to do but then as we ve been following the story from this morning into today. the story took another twist tonight. twists that brings that much closer to home. tonight, this joint security alert has been issued by the fbi, the nsa, national security agency, department of homeland security
Todd tonight, this joint security alert has been issued by the fbi, the national security agency, the department of homeland security and the department of energy. this is a big urgent joint security alert, just released tonight, and it is a technical alert, so i m not going to quote from it too much directly because it is all of this technical stuff but the a. p. i thought summed it up well. they described this alert as quote warning of the discovery of malicious cyber tools that the agency said are capable of gaining full system access to multiple industrial control systems here in the united states and in north america. and in other words, the u.s. government tonight, is urgently warning that someone, they re not saying who, but presumably russia, has deployed malicious weapons that could shut down u.s. infrastructure. specifically they say this thing is targeted at energy infrastructure in north america, to get more specific than that, it is reportedly targeted at