{"id":307,"date":"2019-03-06T07:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T07:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/?p=307"},"modified":"2019-03-06T07:17:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T07:17:25","slug":"how-to-pack-your-cyberwar-emergency-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"How to pack your cyberwar emergency kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In Germany there have been recent reports<\/a> that hacking attempts on water and power suppliers have increased. It is not really surprising that such institutions are primary targets in case of a cyber-attack by foreign countries because power or water outage could lead to a very critical situation quickly. Marc Elsberg\u2019s book Blackout<\/a> describes quite well that a wide-spread blackout could be hard to recover due to to power network instabilities and thus lead to severe consequences only after a few days: shortage of medical supply, fuel, food, heating, communication and so on and thus also a raise of criminal activities due to lack of life-critical resources in many areas. Hopefully this scenario will never occur, but experts consider it a genuine risk and there have been cases like in the Ukraine in 2015<\/a> where cyber-attacks led to power outages. Not only the German government published a checklist<\/a> to prepare for such situations. I agree that you should have the following basic supplies at home all the time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n