Despite years and years of rhetoric concerning the weaknesses in the electronic defenses of the power grid there has yet to be one long term power outage directly caused by a cyber attack. While cyber attacks have not yet taken out the power squirrels have, hundreds of times every year. This talk will examine previous claims of infrastructure cyber attacks such as the Brazil blackout, Turkish pipeline explosion, German steel plant blast furnace and the recent power outage in the Ukraine among others. We will also examine decades of confirmed attacks by squirrels, birds, snakes, and other animals. We will breakdown our meticulously gathered data of cyber squirrel attacks by country, number of people impacted and length of outages and compare that with the same data caused by cyber attack. While some may see cyber squirrel attacks as funny the underlying message is deadly serious. #cyberwar4ever
Cyber Squirrel 1 (aka. Space Rogue, (@spacerog)) is the minister of Information and Propaganda for the Cyber Squirrel Army. He meticulously catalogs and documents all declassified cyber squirrel operations world wide. In addition he likes to debunk suspected hacker attacks that were never really caused by hackers. He prefers walnuts to acorns and loves birdfeeders.