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Pentagon Researchers Test 'Worst-Case Scenario' Attack on US Power Grid
Pentagon Researchers Test ‘Worst-Case Scenario’ Attack on US Power Grid
In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo, contractors walk past a capacitor bank at an AEP electrical transmission substation in Westerville, Ohio.
AP PHOTO/JOE MINCHILLO
BY JOSEPH MARKS
SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, NEXTGOV
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Over 100 people gathered off the tip of Long Island this month to roleplay a cyberattack that takes out the U.S. electric grid for weeks on end.
Plum Island, N.Y.– The team of grid operators had spent days restoring power when a digital strike took out one of two operational utility stations. The other utility was also under attack.
A month had passed since all power in the region was taken down by a devastating cyberattack. It had been a grueling six days restoring power across two electrical utilities and to the building deemed a critical national asset by the Secretary of Energy.
The cyber strike hadn’t forced the team back to zero, but it wasn’t far from it.
...
In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo, contractors walk past a capacitor bank at an AEP electrical transmission substation in Westerville, Ohio.
AP PHOTO/JOE MINCHILLO
BY JOSEPH MARKS
SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, NEXTGOV
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Over 100 people gathered off the tip of Long Island this month to roleplay a cyberattack that takes out the U.S. electric grid for weeks on end.
Plum Island, N.Y.– The team of grid operators had spent days restoring power when a digital strike took out one of two operational utility stations. The other utility was also under attack.
A month had passed since all power in the region was taken down by a devastating cyberattack. It had been a grueling six days restoring power across two electrical utilities and to the building deemed a critical national asset by the Secretary of Energy.
The cyber strike hadn’t forced the team back to zero, but it wasn’t far from it.
...
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