A piece in the conversation.com, gives an excellent coverage of the cyber threat posed by ransomware attacks. The reader can follow up the details if interested, but my concern now is upon the bigger picture, whether there is an impending massive cyber-attack upon the internet and essential IT infrastructure. Fellow fringe dweller dissents are concerned about the latest cyber polygon event, reported below. As the article says, Australia is a sitting duck, and if you think Covid produced chaos, just wait what happens when the lights go out. Present South Africa will be a tea party, if the black outs damage power stations, and it is power down indefinitely.