Image source: Pixabay.com By Daniel Jennings – Off The Grid News Hackers wanting to sabotage the US power grid or other critical infrastructure can do so with a simple Internet search, primarily because some critical systems are outdated and lack even password protection, an NBC News investigation has found. The shocking findings mean that dams,…
By Daniel Jennings – Off The Grid News Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks that hackers could use a smartphone to bring down the electric grid. Cook made the admission during a wide-ranging interview with Time in which he defended the company’s stance on encryption and its opposition to an FBI request to unlock a terrorist’s smartphone.…
By J. D. Heyes – Natural News (NaturalNews) In his 2010 book, Cyber War, Richard Clarke — a national security expert for several presidential administrations and the nation’s first cyber security czar — warned that the country’s Internet-based, electronically controlled infrastructure was at risk. He said then that both state and non-state actors had developed the…
By Bill White – SurvivoPedia Of all our infrastructure, the electrical power grid is the most fragile. In the 2013 Infrastructure Report Card, prepared by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Energy received a grade of D. The only reason it was that high, was that the energy category includes all classes of energy, not just…
By Daniel Jennings – Off The Grid News America’s energy grid is under constant attack by hackers and cyber criminals, with 79 incidents during fiscal year 2014 alone. The year before, there were 145. The data is from the US Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team, which is documenting a growing threat against…
By Tara Dodrill – Off The Grid News China may be waging an invisible war on the United States power grid. A previous news report about cyber warfare threats on the grid appears to coin with a more recent order for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to prepare for war. Chinese president Xi Jinping spewed…
By J. D. Heyes – Natural News (NaturalNews) Tens of millions of Americans face years of loss of electrical power if major solar storms ramp up in the future, sending electromagnetic pulses that will destroy grids and infrastructure, according to an internal two-year-old Department of Homeland Security document. As reported by the Washington Free Beacon,…
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