Last month the press was abuzz with the news that the US electric grid has been hacked by foreign operatives. To anyone who has studied security in the power industry, this isn’t much of a surprise.
Last fall (Aug/Sept 08), I conducted a survey of 200 critical infrastructure operators (the people who actually work in the [...]

Hi Folks,

This morning I heard news reports that the south bay had a telecommunications fiber cut, but my friend Bob from Gilroy had texted me using his phone saying that the local Gilroy PD said it was some sort of fire that caused the outtage. Then this afternoon, I overheard some folks saying there was [...]

It’s a scary story reminiscent of the cold war era that sounds like it comes right out of a science fiction novel: Spies linked to Russia and China penetrated the U.S. electrical grid.

The cyberspies have left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according a report Wednesday on the front page [...]

Once again, technology is leading us down a garden path. Today’s new bright, shiny, object in the energy sector is called the smart grid. Smart Grid devices are small computers that are connected to the power grid, giving customers and power companies better control over the electricity they use. There are about 2 million of [...]

Yet again, the Internet is proving to be a fertile ground for subversive hacking for the sake of political gain. We saw it in April 2008 when Radio Free Europe was shut down for 2 days by the Belarusian opposition groups on the anniversary of Chernobyl. We saw it in July 2008 during the [...]