power grid
A Look at Trump’s Executive Order to Secure the Bulk Power System
On May 1st President Trump signed an Executive Order on “Securing the United States Bulk-Power System.” The order cites foreign adversaries and their increased creation and usage of vulnerabilities against the grid ...
UK Power Grid Network Middleman Struck by Digital Attack
A middleman organization in the United Kingdom’s power grid network suffered a digital attack that affected its internal IT systems. Electricity trading arrangements provider Elexon publicly disclosed the attack in a bulletin ...
Fortress Information Security Strives to Help Protect Critical Infrastructure
The agencies and businesses that make up the backbone of our critical infrastructure have a larger bullseye on their backs than an average company. When it comes to the electric utility providers ...
5 Infamous Hacks You Didn’t Know Were Phishes
Despite the common knowledge around phishing, even the most tech-savvy are still falling prey to the tactic. In fact, millennials are more likely to become a phishing victim than their grandparents are ...
Researchers Uncover Threat Actor Supergroup Linked to Stuxnet, Flame, Duqu
Could critical infrastructure attacks be making a comeback? Or did these invisible threats never leave in the first place? Extensive research reveals that as many as four threat actors many have been ...
IEC 62351 Standards for Securing Power System Communications
To help counter the growing concern about cyberattacks aiming to disrupt power systems, industrial experts have been working together in WG15. This group, part of IEC, is defining the standards known as ...
US Couldn’t Handle Catastrophic Cyberattack on Power Grid, Government Warns
Key infrastructures are in the crossfire of cyberwarfare. Growing threats and sophisticated nation-state attacks backed by North Korea, China and Russia jeopardize public safety and national security. Which one is the bigger ...
GE Power Selects Nozomi Networks for Advanced ICS Cyber Security
We’re excited to tell you that GE and Nozomi Networks have joined forces to provide our advanced cyber security solution to power utilities and critical infrastructure operations around the world. Our global ...
Critical National Infrastructures on the Radar; British MPs Say Attack Is Imminent
Critical national infrastructures such as the energy sector, public transportation, commercial facilities, government and defense, and medical services, among others, have been under attack in recent years, following a large volume of ...
Repost: Hacking the power grid through air conditioners
This is a repost of a blog that Joe Marshall (@ImmortanJo3) and I wrote on February 22, 2016 and @da_667 posted to his blog (which is now defunct, but he has given ...
