The next time your locality suffer a power outage , consider blaming squirrels . This glossa - in - brass single-valued function from the websiteCyber Squirrel1shows globose reports of power outage make by nature ’s cutest cyber terrorist — squirrels , birds , raccoons , snakes , rat , beavers , and monkeys — with selective information date stamp back as far as 1987 . Users have the selection to narrow the data by year and by calendar month , and they can even opt to only view the case related to squirrels , non - squirrels , or all animate being ( the squirrel - related data point - points are set asunder by a new nefarious acorn symbol ) .
The information comes from the Twitter handleCyberSquirrel , whose bio reads " I ’m in your infrastructures eatin your cables . disrupt at the gamy level ! It’s#CyberWar4Ever ! " The account has been dedicated to document pest - produce power outage since March 2013 . This new map , as described onCyberSquirrel1 , list " all unclassified Cyber Squirrel Operations that have been released to the public that we have been capable to substantiate . There are many more executed ops than display on this map however , those ops remain classified . "
The single-valued function also includes instance of cyber act of terrorism from a few countries in addition to the critter , but this vista is fairly negligible , as there ’s only been one successful attack from the U.S. compared to the squirrel ’s 623 successes . As the former deputy director of the NSA is quote as enunciate on the website , " I do n’t think paralysis [ of the electrical grid ] is more probable by cyberattack than by natural disaster . And frankly the number - one threat experienced to date by the U.S. electric control grid is squirrel . "
you could check out the synergistic maphere .
Screenshot // Cyber Squirrel 1
[ h / t : Popular Science ]
