SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Just a day after Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe posted on social media, that he’s been made aware of a ‘heightened threat environment’ in the U.S. following the bombings of nuclear facilities in Iran, OzarksFirst is speaking to a local expert about one of those types attacks mentioned in Kehoe’s posts; Cyber Attacks.
According to Dr. Shannon McMurtrey, an associate professor of Cyber Security at Drury University, he’s not particularly worried at this moment about a state-sponsored cyber attack from Iran.
“A major nation state attack typically requires months, if not years, of reverse engineering operating systems, finding bugs and software that can be exploited, and then weaponizing that. Finding it is the first step. Weaponizing it is the second, and it takes a lot of time. It’s not something that they can just wake up and start doing. I don’t lose a lot of sleep right now because Iran isn’t at that level,” McMurtrey said. “We have professionals that live and breathe this 24/7. It doesn’t take a tweet from the governor to get them on alert. They are always on alert.”…