US to help secure Baltic energy grid against cyber attacks

Source: AFP

Vilnius (AFP) - The United States and Baltic states on Sunday agreed to beef up cooperation to protect the Baltic energy grid from cyber attacks as they disconnect from the Russian electricity grid.

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry and his Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian counterparts termed the agreement "a critical moment for the Baltic States in strengthening cybersecurity" in strategic energy infrastructure.

"We see a crucial role that US could play in assisting the Baltic States with strategic and technical support," the four officials said in a joint declaration signed in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.

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Despite joining the European Union and NATO in 2004, the Baltic trio are still part of a Russian-controlled power grid -- a legacy of five decades of Soviet occupation that ended in 1991.


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I thought it was the Onion at first, but the source is AFP, Agence France-Presse.

Wish the U.S. had some interest in securing its own voting and election systems. And protecting its own other critical infrastructure.

I read yet another article today of some city or county paying a huge ransom to a ransomware attacker. Or was it a hospital system this time.

I'm sorry fellow patriots, but I just don't think we're very good at this kind of thing.

And why would the Baltic states trust us to defend their systems from Russian cyberattacks, when Benedict Donald is inviting Russian hacking of the U.S. election? And Moscow Mitch stalls any efforts to prevent that?