Former KGB Spy Holds a Top Job at New York Electric Grid Operator
By Larry Rulison and Kenneth C. Crowe II from TimesUnion.com The Rensselaer County man in…
Year: 2015
Threat to Melt Electric Grid: EMP Attack on U.S. Would Cause Staggering Devastation
Peter Pry and Hank Cooper in the Wall Street Journal The Pentagon is moving the…
Texas Senator Bob Hall Makes Progress to Protect the Texas Grid
Texas Senator Bob Hall hears testimony on Senate Bill 1398 from Kevin Freeman and Frank…
DOE Warns Grid Dependent ‘Modern Life’ Threatened by Terrorism & Climate Change
By Paul Bedard from The Washington Examiner The Department of Energy warns in a new…
Report: Iranian Hackers Eye U.S. Grid
By Shane Harris from The Daily Beast Iranian hackers are trying to identify computer systems…
Seoul, U.S. Split on North Korea Nuclear Threat
By Alastair Gale from The Wall Street Journal South Korea’s vice defense minister on Monday…
Washington Blackout Highlighted Aging Electrical Grid
By Valerie Volcovici from Reuters The fact that a severed transmission line in Maryland could…
U.S. Aerospace Command Moves Comms Back to Cold War Bunker
From Yahoo News The US military command that scans North America’s skies for enemy missiles…
Scattered Power Outages Hit Washington D.C. Buildings
From FoxNews.com.com Scattered power outages hit the State Department, White House, U.S. Capitol and Justice…
Turkey’s 10-Hour Blackout Shows Threat to World Power Grids
By Firat Kayakiran, Onur Ant, and Ercan Ersoy from Bloomberg A massive power failure that crippled…