November 15, 2018 DARPA uses a remote island to stage a cyberattack on the US power grid It enacted a worst-case, "black start" scenario: swaths of the country's grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted. Naked Security
January 20, 2016 Selfie-posting power grid workers are inadvertently exposing critical information The selfie posters are giving away infrastructure information to potential electricity grid attackers, one expert has warned. Naked Security
November 03, 2015 US cybersecurity plan won’t stop the government getting hacked – but it’s a start A new strategy unveiled by the White House this week should help the US to improve its flawed cyberdefenses, but even the US CIO admits that there can never be perfect security. Naked Security
September 11, 2015 US agency in charge of power grid and nukes keeps getting breached US Department of Energy was hacked 159 times over a four-year period, putting the security of the power grid and nuclear arsenal at risk. Naked Security