2011
08.13

Will major hacking attacks hide behind the next “Solar Flare”…

We just had a solar flare event a few days ago: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390826,00.asp

Solar Flare, if NASA is right on their prediction, there will be a lot of problems in the next major solar flare in 2012 – 2013. When that happens, I can see major hacking attacks align their timing around it and just blame on the solar flare. Attacks could be launched during the chaos, and it might be hard initially to see if the mess is caused by natural event or human sabotage…
Remember the major blackout in Northeastern USA in 2003 which effected 45 million people? It was due to a “computer bug”, but I’m really not sure exactly what that means…
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_2003)

Here is the “Super Solar Flare” article on the NASA website - http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare/

So, are we are prepared for the next solar flare event?

Thoughts?

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