Tag: cyber attack

Cyberattack on Treasury Department Linked to Chinese Hackers

The Editors - December 31, 2024

Eric Tucker of the Associated Press reports that Chinese hackers accessed U.S. Treasury Department workstations and documents by compromising a third-party provider, BeyondTrust. The...

SCADA Vulnerable to Cyber Attack and EMPs

Tim Jones - May 11, 2021

Originally posted May 25, 2012. Have you heard the term SCADA? An event affecting SCADA—Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems—is potentially one of the worst...

How a Russian Hacking Group Gained Access to U.S. High-Tech Secrets

Steve Schneider - February 14, 2018

A Russian hacking group known as Fancy Bear, thought to be associated with the Russian military intelligence agency GRU, has gained access to key...

Data Stolen from Sensitive Military Programs in Cyber Breach

Steve Schneider - October 18, 2017

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that about 30 gigabits of commercially sensitive data for the F-35 JSF, C-130, P-8 Poseidon, and the JDAM...

Does Russia Have a Secret Weapon to Bring Down Electrical Grids?

Steve Schneider - July 28, 2017

In a Wired article titled, “How an Entire Nation Became Russia’s Test Lab for CyberWar,” Andy Greenberg sheds light on how Russia is fine...

U.S. Power Grid More Vulnerable Than Ukraine’s?

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - March 16, 2016

Last December a cyber attack crippled Ukraine's power grid. Engineers were able to manually restart power, workers still have to control the system manually. In...

Power’s Out. Now What?

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - December 2, 2015

Do you know what? 75% of people do not know what to do when the power goes out. I read this statistic twice over Thanksgiving...

Lights Out: A Nation at Risk

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - November 30, 2015

In his book, Lights Out, Ted Koppel quotes George Cotter explaining the terrifying vulnerability of the American electricity grid. I think George Cotter knows what he’s...

MAP: Victims of Chinese Cyber-espionage

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - August 17, 2015

NBC News reports the frightening frequency of Chinese cyber-attacks by posting a map of attack victims produced by the NSA. Robert Windrem reports: A secret...

Secret Congressional Report: Power Grid Hacked?

The Editors - June 26, 2015

According to a secret Congressional report that has only recently been disclosed, the American power grid is under constant threat of being hacked by...

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