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The possibility of a cyberattack on critical infrastructure such as America’s electric power worries National Security Agency (NSA) Director Admiral Michael Rogers, who told a cyber security conference that it’s a “matter of when, not if” hackers successfully attack America’s ...

US Department of Energy researchers have known for nearly a decade that a cyberattack could take down the power grid and have been working to prevent it. Researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) – a Department of Energy lab ...

ISIS could be in the middle of trying to take down the Internet – and it may have tried doing so last year. According to International Business Times, a major attack took place late last year on 13 root name ...

Something as simple as an air conditioner could enable hackers to bring down an entire electric power grid – and it wouldn’t be that difficult for them to do it, according to a new report. The so-called “smart grid” technology ...

Americans concerned about solar flares and the domino effect a power grid-down scenario would spark have been — once again — vindicated. A new study from the University of Warwick in England revealed that not only are solar flares dangerous ...

The computers that control Israel’s power grid were shut down this week by a cyberattack in what Israel Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz called a “severe” attack. “We had to paralyze many of the computers of the Israeli Electricity Authority,” Steinitz ...

Fear of an attack on the electrical grid is now so pervasive that it has reached the presidential debates. Ben Carson raised the alarm about the issue during the January 14 Republican presidential debate, warning that the threat to America ...

America’s electrical power grid is so fragile that even squirrels can knock it. Believe it or not, squirrels have caused 623 electrical outages in recent decades. That’s according to a new website, CyberSquirrel1.com, that traces the number of times squirrels, ...

Late last year a cyberattack took down a large segment of the Ukrainian power grid, marking the first time that hackers anywhere in the world accomplished such a feat. Days later, in early January, North Korea claimed it had successfully ...

A widely feared nightmare scenario has finally occurred, although in another country — hackers were able to cause a widespread power failure in the Ukraine by infecting utilities’ computers with malware. It is the first time a cyberattack has caused ...