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  • US Cyber-Defense is LAUGHABLE

    From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to talk.politics.misc,alt.security,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Saturday, August 22, 2026 23:46:05
    From Newsgroup: alt.security

    https://www.newsnationnow.com/vargasreports/us-needs-to-improve-ai-defenses-to-fight-against-cyberattacks-expert/

    US needs to improve AI defenses to fight against cyberattacks

    Cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright joins NewsNation to discuss
    a cyber threat at the University of Texas at San Antonio and
    the FBI’s latest “active threat” warning.

    . . .

    Alas in the fairy-tale past NOBODY would
    attack US infrastructure/industry/corps.
    It would be a BAD thing, right, so it
    wouldn't happen.

    As such a LOT of our infrastructure/industrial
    shits fired their own tech geeks and hired ONE
    poor over-worked geek to manage all their stuff
    by remote control. Some bean-counter was SURE
    this was the best tact .......

    Minor problem - those remote systems are clearly
    NOT fuckin' secure AT ALL. 12-year-olds can bust
    in, CHINA can bust in (to most EVERYTHING) and
    now IRAN can too. They can all do a LOT of damage.

    Industrial facilities - physical equipment can be
    damaged/destroyed by changing a few numbers. If
    it's a chemical plant, refinery, maybe even a nuke
    plant, there can be huge lethal fallout. Even
    something as banal as ports, much of the giant
    equipment is either Chinese or has lots of Chinese
    circuit boards. A few years back they found that
    the 'safety cameras' in those giant cargo cranes
    were "phoning home" to China, meaning Xi could
    track every container all across the world.

    Xi probably has a big shiny red button on his
    desk labeled "Zap The West" ......

    At this point The Net is SO huge, SO interwoven,
    SO complex, that even "AI" could not keep a good
    eye out for malicious actors.

    Sorry guys, gotta UN-PLUG ! Hire an in-house geek.
    Otherwise yer industry IS gonna, maybe literally,
    burn.

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  • From Ubiquitous@webspermeater@polaris.net to talk.politics.misc,alt.security,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Saturday, August 22, 2026 20:57:12
    From Newsgroup: alt.security

    On 8/22/2026 8:46 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.newsnationnow.com/vargasreports/us-needs-to-improve-ai-defenses-to-
    fight-against-cyberattacks-expert/

    US needs to improve AI defenses to fight against cyberattacks

    And you think this rapist felon Trumpstein is the guy to do that, do you? You fucking idiot.
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  • From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to talk.politics.misc,alt.security,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Sunday, August 23, 2026 04:49:33
    From Newsgroup: alt.security

    On 8/22/26 23:57, Ubiquitous wrote:
    On 8/22/2026 8:46 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.newsnationnow.com/vargasreports/us-needs-to-improve-ai-
    defenses-to- fight-against-cyberattacks-expert/

    US needs to improve AI defenses to fight against cyberattacks

    And you think this rapist felon Trumpstein is the guy to do that, do
    you? You fucking idiot.

    Get back to sucking Xi ... he's calling you.

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  • From Gronk@invalide@invalid.invalid to talk.politics.misc,alt.security,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Friday, August 28, 2026 00:15:01
    From Newsgroup: alt.security

    c186282 wrote:
    https://www.newsnationnow.com/vargasreports/us-needs-to-improve-ai-defenses-to-fight-against-cyberattacks-expert/
    US needs to improve AI defenses to fight against cyberattacks

    Cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright joins NewsNation to discuss
    a cyber threat at the University of Texas at San Antonio and
    the FBI’s latest “active threat” warning.

    . . .

      Alas in the fairy-tale past NOBODY would
      attack US infrastructure/industry/corps.
      It would be a BAD thing, right, so it
      wouldn't happen.

      As such a LOT of our infrastructure/industrial
      shits fired their own tech geeks and hired ONE
      poor over-worked geek to manage all their stuff
      by remote control. Some bean-counter was SURE
      this was the best tact .......

    The FELONdent has gutted intel


    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-AA1NJ7mH

    The lead U.S. agency for protecting the electric
    grid, water supply and other critical services
    from hacking has furloughed most of its already
    trimmed-down staff in the government shutdown,
    just as a decade-old law giving companies leeway
    to collaborate on cyberdefense expired.

    The twin impacts leave employees at the
    Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
    and outside professionals unsettled as they try
    to fend off a surge in sophisticated hacks from
    China as well as continued ransomware threats.

    CISA is set to keep 889 employees, or 35 percent
    of the workforce it had in May, according to a
    planning document released by its parent
    department, the Department of Homeland Security.
    More will be available for emergencies, DHS said.


    Feel safer now?

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