US infrastructure could crumble under cyberattack, ex-NSA advisor warns If a cyberattack hit critical infrastructure in the US, it would likely crumble, former deputy national security adviser and NSA cybersecurity director Anne Neuberger said last week. Neuberger, speaking at the AI Expo for National Competitiveness on Wednesday, said that she lacked confidence in the resilience of US …
Neuberger naturally pushed for the introduction of more AI to secure critical infrastructure. She described such systems as being better able to evaluate legacy systems to discover weak points, ...
And whenever AI determines legacy systems securing critical infrastructure are not worth saving ... and are easily collapsed for remote novel makeover and relatively anonymous and virtually autonomous takeover ...... as it surely has?
To not imagine and think it otherwise, has one always permanently disadvantaged and at the mercy of future totally unexpected events taking a radical unknown unknown direction beyond any means of traditional historical hierarchical human command and control.
To some who may be many is that certainly bound to be something unusual to be spun and feared as an Existential Threat. A.N.Others however can engage and employ and enjoy it as the Almighty Treat which it can also be, and is primarily intelligently designed to deliver, mentor and monitor .... and be best utilised as.
Question: "As the agency responsible for securing the communications sector in the US, Garbarino said, CISA can hardly afford to abandon such a critical program."
Answer: "Have you not seen what the Orange one and associates have done to our budget and staff? Restoration of capability will lead to restoration of programs."
My nightmare seems to be coming true. Trump has called out the National Guard in California* despite the Governor stating that their involvement is making things worse. Now he is crippling the US's cyber defences so that he can genuinely claim that the elections are insecure and annul the results (if he does not win), declare a national emergency and martial law, suspend all future elections and the constitution and stay in power for as long as he likes.
Please tell me it is not so.
* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/09/los-angeles-protests-live-tensions-flare-trump-deploys-national-guard-troops
Critical infrastructure in the US is already crumbling, no cyberattacks necessary.
It is a problem in the entire developed world, to varying degrees. Keeping old things working and in a good shape is a thankless job. Politicians want shiny new things. That said, the US attitude ‘we don't want any public spending (= taxes); let's pay 5× more to a private company to make everything worse’ is hardly helping…
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