A report was released by the FBI and Homeland Security December 29 Russian malicious cyber action targeted th, featuring a “watchlist” of almost 900 IP addresses they maintain.

A CTV news investigation discovered that what was called Ontario hydro set up back in 1990, IP address.

It belongs to Hydro One, the business that runs the vast network of hydro towers and power lines.

The FBI and Homeland Security accused of directing cyber hacks against the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign as well as the Democratic Party, the Russian government. Russia denies any engagement.”

Based on intelligence, on-line scanners have identified as malicious a link from the hydro one IP address, and may potentially include code that develop a back door into a method or may quietly download other malicious software.

There isn’t any reason to consider our power system was undermined.”

CTV technology analyzer, Carmi Levy, says cyber attacks are an increasing danger to authorities, and corporations, “It’s safe to call this a wake-up call just because up until now, we may have supposed that these systems were completely invulnerable to this sort of thing. But what we’re seeing here indicates that nothing is invulnerable. And even an entity that’s been formerly viewed as invulnerable is completely not.”