I see headlines like that and wonder if they know something that I should know.
And then I think "Nah, it's probably nothing."
From the United Nations, May 5:
It can be annoying when the wifi signal is cut, but what about if everything digital we rely on were to crash suddenly – from satellites to life-support systems in hospitals?
That’s the nightmare scenario that the UN is trying to avoid, in a call to all Member States to work together to avoid the cascading impacts of a “digital pandemic”.
The risks to all of us are real and they have already been observed on Earth and in space, including a solar storm that narrowly missed Earth in 2012 that could have knocked out power grids and communications across entire continents.
“The common denominator of these unintentional disruptions is their tendency to cascade with impacts that spread across sectors like finance, like healthcare, transport, energy, and communications. And this can often happen simultaneously,” warned Doreen Bogdan-Martin, head of the International Telecommunication Union, ITU....
....MUCH MORE
If interested see also "The WEF - Carnegie Endowment Cyber Threats Report" wherein the suggestion is made that the thing to do in anticipation of cyberattacks is merge the major banks, their regulators, and law enforcement into one entity.
And related:
