Data growth raises cyber attack risk for utilities
DHS and FBI assist Alliant Energy in mitigating cyber intrusions that disrupted emails and phones last November. Vern Gebhart notes evolving threats and the need to protect the power grid, citing lessons from the 2008 floods and ongoing collaboration with DHS and FBI. The warning from DHS remains blunt: it’s not if but when.
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Alliant
Vern Gebhart
Gazette
Cyber breach trends and global attack data from the 2013 report
Verizon 2013 Data Breach Investigations finds 75 percent of breaches driven by financial motives and 74 percent expose payment data. It notes 66 percent of financial breaches involve ATMs and 84 percent of health care breaches were spotted by law enforcement. Last year saw 2,164 breaches exposing 822 million records. the US accounted for 66.5 percent of exposed records globally, with South Korea second at 17.1 percent and China leading attack traffic per Bloomberg.
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Richmond
Risk Based
United States
South Korea
Bloomberg
China
Those Angry Days and the fight over American entry
In Lynne Olson's Those Angry Days the 1939 41 debate on joining World War II pits Franklin D Roosevelt against isolationist voices like Charles Lindbergh. The book tracks public opinion, business hostility to the New Deal and isolationist sentiment, noting a 1939 Gallup poll showing 70 percent of Americans staying at home.
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Lynne Olson
Japan
Pearl Harbor
America
Europe
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Britain
Winston Churchill
Charles Lindbergh
Atlantic
Lucky Lindy
Germany
Des Moines
Lindbergh
Czechoslovakia
Albania
Poland
Denmark
Norway
Olson
White House
Congress
Wall Street
Roosevelt
Gallup
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