Jan. 11, 2017 The U.S. power grid is in constant danger of a cyberattack that could cause widespread blackouts and impact millions of citizens, according to a new 492-page report from the Department of Energy that warns if nothing is ...
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White House Warns: THIS Event Would Impact ‘National Government Stability’
WASHINGTON — The threat of what the White House calls a “significant cyber incident” against the power grid is so great that the Obama administration has unveiled a major new strategy, complete with a six-level schema that acknowledges the most ...
Read More »FEMA Warns America: Power Will Be Down For WEEKS After A Grid Attack
The United States is completely unprepared for a cyberattack on the electric power grid that could lead to total economic collapse, according to a key Congressman who hosted an April hearing on the issue. US Representative Lou Barletta (R-Pennsylvania), chairman ...
Read More »Homeland Security Acknowledges: We Can’t Protect The Power Grid
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lacks the resources and personnel needed to protect America’s critical infrastructure from a cyberattack, the agency’s head has acknowledged. The department even lacks the funds to hire the top cybersecurity experts. “We are ...
Read More »NSA Chief Warns: Start Preparing For Blackouts, Downed Grid
The possibility of a cyberattack on critical infrastructure such as America’s electric power worries National Security Agency (NSA) Director Admiral Michael Rogers, who told a cyber security conference that it’s a “matter of when, not if” hackers successfully attack America’s ...
Read More »US Gov’t Prepping For Attack ‘Equivalent To 40 To 50 Large Hurricanes’
US Department of Energy researchers have known for nearly a decade that a cyberattack could take down the power grid and have been working to prevent it. Researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) – a Department of Energy lab ...
Read More »Israel Power Grid Hit By ‘Severe’ Cyberattack
The computers that control Israel’s power grid were shut down this week by a cyberattack in what Israel Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz called a “severe” attack. “We had to paralyze many of the computers of the Israeli Electricity Authority,” Steinitz ...
Read More »Is A Power Grid Attack Imminent?
Late last year a cyberattack took down a large segment of the Ukrainian power grid, marking the first time that hackers anywhere in the world accomplished such a feat. Days later, in early January, North Korea claimed it had successfully ...
Read More »A Cyberattack Finally Has Hit A Major Power Grid, And It Did Exactly What We Feared
A widely feared nightmare scenario has finally occurred, although in another country — hackers were able to cause a widespread power failure in the Ukraine by infecting utilities’ computers with malware. It is the first time a cyberattack has caused ...
Read More »Iran Hacks Into U.S. Power Grid (And What They Stole Should Frighten You)
Iranian hackers have successfully penetrated America’s power grid and accessed passwords and engineering drawings of power plants, and security experts say it’s only a matter of time before such an attack leads to widespread blackouts, the Associated Press reported. In ...
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