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EE Times (Electronic Engineering Times) the electronics industry's “premier” publication reported yesterday: “The US Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) recently released an alert regarding malware that is targeting popular human-machine interfaces (HMIs) of industrial control systems. Based on a variant of the BlackEnergy malware toolkit, the malware infects HMI systems that have a direct connection to the Internet” (Rich Quinnell, BlackEnergy Malware Targeting Industrial Control SCADA attacked, 11/5/2014).

What does this mean in layman's terms? President Obama’s hallmark trillion dollar ARRA “infrastructure” initiative failed to correct critical infrastructure deficiencies and leaves America vulnerable to cyber-attacks, as incapacitating as nuclear, and a few more seconds closer to Midnight.

ABC News reported today: “A destructive ‘Trojan Horse’ malware program has penetrated the software that runs much of the nation’s critical infrastructure and is poised to cause an economic catastrophe….” “The hacked software is used to control complex industrial operations like oil and gas pipelines, power transmission grids, water distribution and filtration systems, wind turbines and even some nuclear plants. Shutting down or damaging any of these vital public utilities could severely impact hundreds of thousands of Americans” (Jack Cloherty and Pierre Thomas, 'Trojan Horse' Bug Lurking in Vital US Computers Since 2011, 11/6/2014).

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