"Utility cybersecurity is in a state of near chaos." While Pike estimated $14 billion will be pumped into the smart grid from now through 2018, with 63% of that for control system security, a "$60 piece of software can bypass an entire defense-in-depth implementation." ...(read more)
Intruders launched their attack from IP addresses based in Russia and gained access by hacking inot the network of a software vendor that makes the SCADA...(read more)
Washington, DC – American intelligence agencies, in an unusually blunt public criticism of China and Russia, reported to Congress on Thursday that those two foreign governments steal valuable American technology over the Internet as a matter of national policy....(read more)
Researchers have found evidence that the Stuxnet worm, which alarmed governments around the world, could be about to regenerate...(read more)
Washington, DC – As part of the Obama Administration’s goals to enhance the security and reliability of the nation’s energy infrastructure, the U.S. Department of Energy today released the 2011 Roadmap to Achieve Energy Delivery Systems Cybersecurity. Developed as an update to the 2006 Roadmap to Secure Control Systems in the Energy Sector ...(read more)
Spending on infrastructure is a key element in the economic plan President Obama proposed last week. But the critical questions are what the money gets spent on and where it comes from. ...(read more)
Cyber-attackers hit another Department of Energy research laboratory last week, forcing IT managers to shut down all of the facility’s computer links to the outside world to try to contain the damage ...(read more)
Juniper Networks Sponsored Survey Finds Security Breaches Cost 41 Percent of Businesses at Least a Half a Million Dollars ...(read more)
A cyber attack blocked traffic to the webiste of the Brazilian presidency and two other government sites ...(read more)
The U.S. Cyber Challenge today announced the 2011 Cyber Camps, a series of weeklong ...(read more)
Japanese video game developer Sega announced Sunday that hackers broke into its database and stole ...(read more)
Employers rushing to boost cyber defenses after a rash of U.S. online break-ins ...(read more)
A new U.S. military program shares classified information about cyber threats with defense contractors and their ISPs as part of...(read more)
The timley release of a report Monday by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) cuts straight to the heart of the electric utility cyber security discussions ongoing ...(read more)
Panetta: Large-scale cyber attack that could take down the major infrastructure is 'real possibility'...(read more)
As the United States and other countries prepare for the transition to a smarter electrical grid, there's great reason to be optimistic...(read more)
WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund, still struggling to find a new leader after the arrest...(read more)
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's proposal for protecting banks, power grids...(read more)
WASHINGTON – Companies that run critical U.S. industries such as power plants would get government...(read more)
Japan's reactor crisis has renewed anxiety about nuclear safety and could derail efforts to revive the U.S. industry as a clean alternative energy source...(read more)
The fallout of the continuing crisis at Japan's Fukushima power plant has Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., ...(read more)
A few weeks ago I attempted to impact some wisdom on the status of the CIPs...(read more)
Back in December 2009, the CIP-002 version 4 draft was called "Cyber Security-BES Cyber System Categorization...(read more)
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