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Russian hackers are a meme right now because of their meddling in the US Election. They hacked the Clinton campaign's email system. There's also the recent spate of DDOS attacks traced to Russia, iirc.
After Trump election you can forget about them.
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If we had large amount of devices like heaters and boilers attached to remote control system it would be probably possible to cause major problems to the electrical network by just turning the devices on and off in synchronised fashion. And actually this is not so far fetched, since there are already discussions about making these devices smart and remotely controllable so that the utility company could balance the e…
That's related: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/03/no-more-electrici...
This was almost certainly a case of outgoing DoS, not incoming DDoS. Terrible reporting. Remote management hardware got infected with Mirai or the like.
I'm calling: Local newspaper, written in English by Finnish speaking Finns who are not computer specialists.
This was almost certainly a case of outgoing DoS, not incoming DDoS. Terrible reporting. Remote management hardware got infected with Mirai or the like.
I'm calling: Local newspaper, written in English by Finnish speaking Finns who are not computer specialists.
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1. Why russians? We actually neighbors (40 minutes from my home to Finland), we like them and we prefer to be friends with them. 2. Everybody can be smart after the case :) I'm sure now the'll design something more safe.
> we like them and we prefer to be friends with them. How true is this? Every Finnish person I've ever met has mistrusted and feared Russia.
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> we like them and we prefer to be friends with them. How true is this? Every Finnish person I've ever met has mistrusted and feared Russia.
100%. Russia is multi-national country and we have some nations inside country that we don't like (sorry, but it's true), so I can say we like Finns even more than some russians :) They have awesome vodka (much, much better than any russian vodka), they are smart and friendly, not arrogant - awesome people. I highly doubt any russian leader, even Putler, will try to offend them.
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Russian hackers are a meme right now because of their meddling in the US Election. They hacked the Clinton campaign's email system. There's also the recent spate of DDOS attacks traced to Russia, iirc.
After Trump election you can forget about them.
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100%. Russia is multi-national country and we have some nations inside country that we don't like (sorry, but it's true), so I can say we like Finns even more than some russians :) They have awesome vodka (much, much better than any russian vodka), they are smart and friendly, not arrogant - awesome people. I highly doubt any russian leader, even Putler, will try to offend them.
Russia is like the only enemy Finland has at this point, it doesn't matter whether you, personally, like them or not.
Regardless of the reason, deliberate targetting, accidental "drive by DDoS" or bad configuration, the question that remains is "Why is the heating dependent on being online?" It is completely reasonable if the heat system every so often "phones home", so report on usage, but it shouldn't actually stop working, if the network connection isn't available. You can blame, DDoS, hackers, network outages, the Russians, I do…
i had just bought a house and had a kid. the air conditioner was hooked up to a radio network device that was opt-in, and allowed the electric utility to remotely turn off certain blocks of users under heavy load. anyone who opted in got a % off their energy bill. well, in early may, i have a baptism and it turns out to be over 100 degrees and we have 50 people over. they had recently upgraded the radio system, and hadn't even turned it on for the year yet. i was told i had to pay them to swap it out because they refused to support it. i told them to fuck off. after a few more calls, and thankfully a state attorney general prosecutor who happened to be at the party, suddenly someone at the electric company found the old transmitter and turned it on, and had it send my air conditioner the ok to turn on. i haven't had a problem since.
american infrastructure is a joke.
you're all idiots.