Me, "This is becoming a serious issue. Where do we chose to get our news? Do we believe national papers that are supposed to check and recheck their facts before running a story? Do we believe Cable TV News with their multiple talking heads that we are supposed to believe are telling us the truth when they blew who would win the presidential election and left a lot of people angry, upset and confused?
Where can you turn to and get accurate news?
The problem is that anyone can write what ever they want and you have to hope they are telling the truth or at least are conveying it in the most honest way possible. I try my best to re-post and discuss important issues, but the fact remains that there was really one organization that was at fault here and two levels of an organization that failed: The energy company was or was not called by the Washington Post reporter (This is how tricky news can be) trying to find out what was going on and the Washington Post editors should have held off on publishing this news until it had corroboration on what had occurred. This being the case my discussion, " A Fire Martial is needed in U.S. Cyber-Command for the private industry (Energy, Commerce,) that have computer systems that could be hacked." still holds merit because Cyber Command needs a way of reaching out to companies and telling them the areas that they need to fix so they have less of a threat from hackers. The fact that the Washington Post story was false does not negate the fact that our infrastructure needs constant monitoring and up keeping to keep hackers out."
From Article, "Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid"
There was no “penetration of the U.S. electricity grid.” The truth was undramatic and banal. Burlington Electric, after receiving a Homeland Security notice sent to all U.S. utility companies about the malware code found in the DNC system, searched all its computers and found the code in a single laptop that was not connected to the electric grid.
Apparently, the Post did not even bother to contact the company before running its wildly sensationalistic claims, so Burlington Electric had to issue its own statement to the Burlington Free Press, which debunked the Post’s central claim (emphasis in original): “We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop NOT connected to our organization’s grid systems.”
So the key scary claim of the Post story — that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid — was false. All the alarmist tough-guy statements issued by political officials who believed the Post’s claim were based on fiction.
