Ransomware hackers hit pipelines, food supply, transportation, more
The high-profile incidents show “that nothing is safe,” former senior Department of Homeland Security official Paul Rosenzweig told USA Today. “Not the meatpacking industry, not the chemical industry, not the wastewater treatment industry, not Sony. Nothing.”
“And the only way to be safe in this world is to unplug completely. And you can’t do that and be economically competitive,” added Rosenzweig, a Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats senior fellow at the non-partisan R Street Institute public policy research organization in Washington, D.C.
