National Grid is to set “honeypots” and plant false documents online as part of efforts to counter a surge in cyber attackers. The Grid has advertised a contract worth more than a million ...

Small nation-states and organizations, in particular, are cultivating advanced methods of attacking electrical grids, and these groups may not be as inhibited about setting an attack in motion as the ...

Over time, as the electric grid has grown primarily in developed economies and in other places, it has become somewhat indispensable to everything that is required to sustain the economy, so much so ...

China is also very active in cyber and uses viruses and botnets to access targets. Those same skills can be applied to hack the grid and potentially leave large areas of the nation without ...

{mosads}In March 2018, the Trump administration blamed the Russian government for a campaign of cyber attacks going back at least two years that targeted the U.S. power grid, marking the first ...

Government teams with the electric industry to short-circuit cyber attacks. A significant modernization effort underway across the national electric grid is seeking a balance between strong ...

It said that it has alerted the Australian Cyber Security Centre and UK authorities ... While individual attacks wouldn’t affect the grid more broadly, CSCRC Research Director Helge Janicke ...

Smith added: “Utilities are starting to rethink their approach to cyber security. Traditionally, they have focused on protecting their OT from external threats. However, as the grid becomes more ...