Cracking a power company network and gaining access to supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that could shut down the grid is simple, security expert and penetration-testing ...

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Can everyone puh-leeze calm down? On December 30 2016, the Washington Post ran what sounded like a pretty serious story entitled “Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in ...

The hack to the electrical grid, which was first reported in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, was found after malware--malicious software--was discovered on workstations that appeared to come from ...