Hacking the grid: How digital sabotage turns infrastructure into a weapon

The US used a cyberattack to turn off power in Caracas during the raid to seize Maduro. The US grid is also vulnerable to ...
Security Info Watch

America’s Power Grid Is Running Hot—and Hackers Know It

As AI-driven energy demand collides with nation-state cyber probing and fragmented IT/OT defenses, utilities must move beyond ...

Why I’m withholding certainty that “precise” US cyber-op disrupted Venezuelan electricity

The New York Times has published new details about a purported cyber attack unnamed US officials claim plunged parts of Venezuela into darkness in the lead-up to the capture of the country’s president ...
Graham Cluley

Washington Post backtracks on frenzied reporting of Russian hack attack against power grid

Can everyone puh-leeze calm down? On December 30 2016, the Washington Post ran what sounded like a pretty serious story entitled “Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in ...
EDN

Alleged Russian cyberweapon knocks out power grids

How comforted are you by phrases such as “so far” or “probably”? Hackers briefly knocked out power to part of Kiev last December, the second time Ukraine’s power grid was successfully attacked in just ...