While this pipeline hack was bad enough, the electric grid worries me more

It is being touched constantly, but small investors just happen to be on the same side as the WS elite, so they also enjoy unearned profits as the fed creates trillions to prop up share prices.
The flip side is higher prices on all kinds on goods, especially necessities like food, housing, transportation. The stock market "investments" partially protect small investors from those increases but eventually the piper will come for payment.

Of course, investors in precious metals have been raped for years as 'paper' trading of gold and silver by Wall St (in particular Chase) has suppressed the prices of gold and silver and made billions on short trades for the banking cartel.
Their brokerage accounts have been 'touched', actually drained by the cartel who creates money from nothing and moves the prices as they wish illegally without fear of punishment.

As long as they don't touch my brokerage account...

How convenient for the greenies. At the risk of being called a conspiracy theorist, did this attack come from where they say it did? It seems too convenient to me.

From the article: "The company said Monday that the hack affected only its information technology, rather than control systems used to run the pipeline..." As a retired process controls programmer this tells me the systems (likely PLCs) in charge of actually running the pipeline's hardware are not effected - and are not likely to be effected.

I notice on the news the Russians were blamed right away. I'd like to know how that was figured.

The governments have set such a great example with the 2020 election, I'm sure they can secure the pipeline system.

Great. 'Unify' it, that way the hackers can knock out the whole country in one shot!

And water too

Something about the book series NetForce comes to mind. The first one was fun read, The others pretty much the same.
More importantly the Hunger Games comes to mind. Could we be on the verge of Energy Games?

It would have to be a contained and closed network environment with no internet capability outside point to point secure and encrypted firewalls. While no strategy is infallible using non public IP (non routable) with very limited and specific open ports for encrypted inter site traffic it can be more secure. However given enough time someone will eventually get through.

The fedgov is NEVER the solution to anything.

Often wondered just who ever thought that any of these interconnected systems would be safe from external sabotage. The initial design was flawed and anything done to “secure” them, it seems to me, is nothing but bandaids and patchwork. I do NOT pretend to know anything about cyber security, other than I don’t trust the security.
There has to be a completely different way to have interconnected systems protected ??