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Cooking when the grid is down can be a bit tricky for those who rely on their oven or other electrical appliances to prepare a meal. Whether you live in an area prone to power outages or simply want to ...

Iranian hackers have successfully penetrated America’s power grid and accessed passwords and engineering drawings of power plants, and security experts say it’s only a matter of time before such an attack leads to widespread blackouts, the Associated Press reported. In ...

A former CIA director and former executive director of the EMP Task Force are charging that the Obama administration is failing to protect America from a potential power grid-crippling solar storm, choosing instead to conduct more studies on a potential ...

Our sun is a very volatile star, with violent eruptions often occurring without us even knowing it. Solar storms, defined by NASA as “eruptions of mass and energy from the solar surface, including prominences, flares, sunspots and coronal ejections,” are ...

The American electrical power grid is highly vulnerable to a devastating cyberattack and the United States government has no plan for dealing with such a catastrophe, famed TV newsman Ted Koppel says. Koppel thinks the danger of such an attack ...

China has the ability to shut down or cripple the American power grid and other critical infrastructure within the US – and it would all be done through cyberattacks, top-ranking government officials in both countries say. President Obama is so ...

With little media coverage, two House subcommittees in mid-September held hearings on the vulnerability of the U.S. power grid, with one U.S. representative acknowledging that the grid is old and susceptible to attack – and even saying if it goes ...

A catastrophic failure of America’s electrical power grid because of a solar flare, sabotage or cyberattack is highly likely, experts told House members this month. Two subcommittees of the House’s Committee on Science, Space and Technology heard testimony that confirmed ...

September 14th, 2015 Pocahontas County in West Virginia falls within the National Radio Quiet Zone. It’s home to quiet country living, friendly people, and one of the most impressive engineering marvels in the world—the Green Bank Telescope. The GBT measures ...

Hackers in the past five years successfully penetrated more than 150 times the computer networks at the federal department that controls the nation’s nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon factories, nuclear-research facilities and that handles security for America’s electrical grid, according to ...