It enacted a worst-case, “black start” scenario: swaths of the country’s grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted.
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US cybersecurity plan won’t stop the government getting hacked – but it’s a start
A new strategy unveiled by the White House this week should help the US to improve its flawed cyberdefenses, but even the US CIO admits that there can never be perfect security.
US agency in charge of power grid and nukes keeps getting breached
US Department of Energy was hacked 159 times over a four-year period, putting the security of the power grid and nuclear arsenal at risk.