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Cyber warfare is one of the top five concerns for the insurance industry, according to a new Towers Watson survey of insurance executives around the world who consider attacks on essential computers among the extreme risks they worry about which ...

Demonstrating that the US Government believes the electric grid is truly vulnerable, government officials will take part in a drill Wednesday and Thursday to simulate what would happen if the power grid is down for several months – a scenario ...

Hackers could easily cause electric power plants to shut down, malfunction or even overheat because of vulnerabilities in software, say experts who have been studying vulnerabilities in servers. Hackers also could shut down sections of the grid and cause power ...

What would you do if the world suddenly went dark? That is exactly what NatGeo’s original movie American Blackout – which premieres Sunday, Oct. 27, seeks to discover. The power grid collapses following a cyber attack, forcing the nation into ...

Utilities, large corporations and the federal government are so worried about the power grid going down for weeks or months that they are planning a massive drill to test the response to such a scenario – and former US Sen. ...

A major cyber attack will one day disrupt life as we know it in the United States. So says former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who made the comments during her finals days in the post. The then-Obama ...

Aug. 28, 2013 Power grid vulnerabilities are finally garnering some attention by government officials. An electrical grid joint drill simulation is being planned in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Thousands of utility workers, FBI agents, anti-terrorism experts, governmental agencies, ...

The power grid just received its “grade card” from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and it barely passed. The overall rating of our antiquated electrical system was a D+. Major power outages in the United States have grown ...

The death of reporter and writer Michael Hastings has shaken the journalism community across the nation, along with fans of the writer’s hard-hitting reporting. Considering the type of articles and books the reporter wrote and the way he died, conspiracy ...

Chinese hackers compromised critical United States weapons systems files, proving once again how vulnerable the nation is to cyber attack. While the liberal elite continue to poke fun at the off-grid and prepping communities’ self-reliant mindset, the frailness of our ...