Cybersecurity

DoE Cyber Attacks Not Surprising, Experts Say

The revelation this week that the Department of Energy (DoE) Joint Cybersecurity Coordination Center recorded more than 1,000 hacks into department computer systems from 2010 to 2014, including more than 150 successful intrusions into systems containing sensitive data about the nation’s electric power grid, cybersecurity experts said they aren’t at all surprised.

Fifty-three of the 159 intrusions from October 2010 to October 2014 were "root compromises" that gave the hacker administrative privileges to DoE’s computer systems. And that’s not good.