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The White House is reportedly moving swiftly forward with a plan to harden the security of the US power grid against hacking attacks.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading White House launches plan to protect US critical infrastructure against cyber attacks
A heat wave spreading across a large portion of the west coast of the United States is not surprising for this time of year, but the frequency and severity of these heat waves have been getting worse in recent years as the side effects from climate change become more obvious. …read more
Continue reading What’s the Deal with Rolling Blackouts in California’s Power Grid?
Just to intensify the feeling of impending zombie apocalypse of the COVID-19 lockdown in the British countryside where I live, we had a power cut. It’s not an uncommon occurrence here at the end of a long rural power distribution network, and being prepared for a power outage is something …read more
Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Is Our Power Grid Smart Enough to Know When There’s No Power?
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 as the primary drive… Continue reading A Look at Trump’s Executive Order to Secure the Bulk Power System
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 posted to its websit… Continue reading UK Power Grid Network Middleman Struck by Digital Attack
Renewable energy has long been touted as a major requirement in the fight to stave off the world’s growing climate emergency. Governments have been slow to act, but prices continue to come down and the case for renewables grows stronger by the day.
However, renewables have always struggled around the …read more
Continue reading The Hornsdale Power Reserve And What It Means For Grid Battery Storage
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 that manage the power grid, the exposure to risk is exac… Continue reading Fortress Information Security Strives to Help Protect Critical Infrastructure
Without warning on an early August evening a significant proportion of the electricity grid in the UK went dark. It was still daylight so the disruption caused was not as large as it might have been, but it does highlight how we take a stable power grid for granted.
The …read more
Continue reading Anatomy Of A Power Outage: Explaining the August Outage Affecting 5% of Britain
A massive power outage in South America last month left most of Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay in the dark and may also have impacted small portions of Chile and Brazil. It’s estimated that 48 million people were affected and as of this writing there has still been no official explanation …read more
Continue reading The South American Power Outage that Plunged 48 Million into Blackout
The US is alleged to have been quietly planting malware throughout Russia’s energy networks in response to years of Russian attacks on its own power grid. Continue reading The US is reportedly seeding Russia’s power grid with malware