By Tricia Drevets – Off The Grid News How vulnerable is America’s power grid? The Wall Street Journal recently did an in-depth study to find out the answer to that question, and the results are unsettling. “Despite federal orders to secure the power grid, tens of thousands of substations are still vulnerable to saboteurs,” writes…
Image source: Pixabay.com By Kevin Danielsen – Off The Grid News Determining the specific ramifications after something like a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP) attack, or even a Carrington Event-style coronal mass ejection (CME) is kind of a guessing game at this point. However, one thing we do know is that some of the most horrifying…
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or other critical infrastructure can do so with a simple Internet search, primarily because some critical systems are outdated and lack even password protection, an NBC News investigation has found.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,…
Image source: YouTube By Daniel Jennings – Off The Grid News US Department of Energy researchers have known for nearly a decade that a cyberattack could take down the power grid and have been working to prevent it. Researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) – a Department of Energy lab — actually demonstrated that…
By Daniel Jennings – Off The Grid News The computers that control Israel’s power grid were shut down this week by a cyberattack in what Israel Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz called a “severe” attack. “We had to paralyze many of the computers of the Israeli Electricity Authority,” Steinitz acknowledged Tuesday in a speech at the…
By Daniel Barker – Natural News (NaturalNews) The U.S. is vulnerable to cyber attacks from China and other countries capable of shutting down the power grid and disabling vital infrastructure, according to Admiral Michael Rogers, head of both the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command. Rogers recently warned the House Intelligence Committee: “We’re…
By Daisy Luther – The Organic Prepper Natural disasters. Nuclear attacks. Long-term grid collapse. Water shortages. An economic crash. Those are the normal topics of conversation when preppers think about end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it events. But it’s entirely possible the event that we never really thought about has been quietly gearing up, right under our noses. Maybe the…
By Mac Slavo – SHTFplan.com The potential for a devastating EMP resulting from a massive solar event, or a man made weapon, is well known and, increasingly, being taken seriously as a looming, perhaps inevitable, disaster. Surprisingly, there are actually voices in Congress urging Washington to prepare for all contingencies and to upgrade the power…
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 Mac Slavo – SHTFplan.com When it comes to an EMP attack, the question remains “when” not “if” the SHTF. Few other scenarios hold as much potential for disaster and disruption to the lives of everyone in society. At a moment’s notice, 300 million Americans could be made instantly desperate – and even likely to…
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