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InternetNews
September 15, 2009 |
U.S. Reviewing Cyber Threat to Power Grid Chinese researcher uses publicly available data to demonstrate how cyber terrorists could knockout entire West Coast grid with relative ease.   |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Glenn Derene |
How Vulnerable is U.S. Infrastructure to a Major Cyber Attack? The next world war might not start with a bang, but with a blackout. |
National Defense
September 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Feds Fear Coordinated Physical, Cyber-Attacks on Electrical Grids Electrical grids in the United States are vulnerable to both cyber-attacks and space weather, federal officials have said. |
InternetNews
September 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Lawmakers Warned of Threats to the Grid On anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks, House subcommittee mulls cyber security bill. |
National Defense
August 2011
Zhen Zhang |
Cohesive Cybersecurity Policy Needed For Electric Grid Securing the electric grid is one of the key components of preventing terrorist attacks in the United States and increasing the country's resilience and recovery from such events. |
CIO
January 4, 2012
Mark Rowh |
Smart Grid Security Inadequate, Threats Abound As the Stuxnet attack shows, malicious hackers "clearly have the upper hand" over power grid systems, a new study says. A lack of strict standards and a hodgepodge of products have created today's chaotic state of utility cybersecurity. |
National Defense
April 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Report Ponders What Follows a Cyber Attack on Electric Grid Experts are convinced that a cyber attack on a U.S. electric grid that could cut off power to millions is a near certainty. |
Information Today
February 4, 2013
Paula J. Hane |
A Cyber War Is Brewing A cyberwar has been brewing and although you might view this battle as governments going head to head in a shadow fight, experts say the battleground is shifting from government entities to the private sector, to civilian targets that provide many essential services to U.S. citizens. |
InternetNews
November 23, 2009 |
IBM Outlines Top Security Trends for 2010 IBM's X-Force security team sees cyber crooks getting social and heading for the clouds. |
Bank Technology News
April 2007
Rebecca Sausner |
The New Red Menace Russian and eastern European hackers get all the glory these days, but their efforts to disrupt American financial services are a nuisance when compared to the nation-state threat that China's cyber army, and its rogue hackers, may pose. |
InternetNews
August 7, 2009 |
Facebook, Twitter Attacks Aimed for One User An anti-Russian blogger with profiles on a number of sites may have been the intended target of yesterday's attack. |
Search Engine Watch
January 20, 2010
Jason King |
Google's New Approach to China: A Closer Look at the Attack Heard 'Round the Web Taking a look at the numerous security implications for Google users after last week's cyber attack on Google by China. |
CIO
June 26, 2009
Kim S. Nash |
Obama's Cybersecurity Push: What It Means for CIOs President Obama aims to fix U.S. cybersecurity, but can the feds hit a moving target? Not without private sector support and practical solutions. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
S. Massoud Amin |
U.S. Electrical Grid Gets Less Reliable Since 1995, outages have steadily increased as R&D steadily declined |
National Defense
October 2013
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Fears of Devastating Cyber-Attacks on Electric Grid, Critical Infrastructure Grow Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that the United States faces "a major cyber-event that will have a serious effect on our lives, our economy and the everyday functioning of our society." |
InternetNews
February 25, 2010 |
Intel Confirms Details of Cyber Attack In regulatory filing, Intel outlines "sometimes successful" attacks that infiltrated the company's systems around the same time as the massive attack on Google and other companies. |
Fast Company
Michael Grothaus |
For First Time, Cyber Attack Causes Widespread Electricity Blackout The first known cyber attack to cause widespread public blackouts has occurred in Ukraine, it is believed. |
InternetNews
January 28, 2010 |
IT Managers Brace for a Barrage of Cyber Attacks Despite increased awareness and new state and federal legislation, most enterprise IT managers expect to be victimized by a major cyber attack in the next five years. |
InternetNews
July 8, 2009
Alex Goldman |
U.S., South Korea Under Cyber Attack Governments and security firms are working together to fight an attack which, though massive, contains very primitive components. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
AP Report: U.S. Power Grid Subject To Repeated Foreign Hacks The U.S. power grid is subject to being hacked from abroad, and foreign hackers have gained remote access to American power operations about a dozen times over the last decade. |
InternetNews
February 24, 2010 |
Cyber Attacks Hit 75% of Enterprises in 2009 Symantec's latest report has more unsettling news for IT security administrators. |
Fast Company
Victor Kotsev |
Why International Cybercrime Is Going To Keep Getting Worse Many countries have devoted cyber warfare units that know how to cover their tracks, and just about every country now has cyber vigilantes and criminals motivated by their own specific needs, missions or grievances. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Madani & Novoosel |
Getting a Grip on the Grid The findings of major electric disturbances around the world highlight the need for cross-regional grid reforms, so that the best available technology is promptly put to use, without lengthy delays arising from American legislative or regulatory processes. |
InternetNews
June 1, 2009
Alex Goldman |
VPN Breach Underscores IT Security Challenges How did an employee who had been laid off some time ago gain access to vital energy company systems through the corporate VPN? |
Popular Mechanics
March 25, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Forget the Smart Grid, We Need Smart Spending (On the Grid) Some of the stimulus bill is slated for projects to fix our energy infrastructure. But before we start spending, the terminology needs refining. Here is how a buzzword is confusing the plan to upgrade the electrical grid. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2012
Dina Gerdeman |
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong? |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2004
Matthew Bechard |
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on the 2003 Blackout and Energy Efficiency Abraham spoke with Portfolio regarding the National Energy Policy, the 2003 blackout, and how REITs can improve their energy efficiency. |
InternetNews
March 23, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Sun's Grid DDOS-Attacked Sun's public grid launch was hampered by denial-of-service attacks on the company's grid pilot. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2010
Toby Shute |
The Smart Grid Means More Than Meters Reliability is also key to improving our electric infrastructure. |
InternetNews
December 15, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Intelligent Log Analysis May Beef up Security Security logs could help detect and prevent security breaches, but analyzing their reports is so boring that they're underutilized. |
IndustryWeek
June 20, 2012 |
Can the U.S. Revitalize its Infrastructure? Pushing the limits of an aging infrastructure, U.S. manufacturers face a future of increasing costs and instability unless new technologies and new investments can rejuvenate the system. |
Home Toys
February 2006
Michael Kintner-Meyer |
Grid Friendly Appliances What can home appliances do to help ensure the reliability of the electricity grid? A lot -- if they employ smart control technology. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Glenn Derene |
How Hackers Could Take Down a Natural Gas Pipeline Much of America's infrastructure is computer-controlled, and therefore subject to hacking. Here is an in-depth look at the specific vulnerabilities of a natural gas pipeline. |
