By Rich M – Off The Grid News The American culture survives on a lifeline of electrical wires. This power grid crisscrosses the country, bringing electricity to homes, offices, factories, warehouses, farms, traffic lights and even campgrounds. Pretty much everywhere you go, you can count on being able to plug in and have electricity to…
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…
By Daniel Jennings – Off The Grid News Failure of the electrical grid can lead to far more than just inconvenience and a loss of the lights. History has proven that loss of electricity and the amenities it provides can lead to civil unrest, including riots. Attacks on the infrastructure that provides our homes and…
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: Flickr By Daniel Jennings – Off The Grid News Three days’ worth of food and supplies is insufficient for your family’s survival, the federal government has finally acknowledged in what one expert is calling a landmark shift in emergency preparation. The White House’s new plan was released last year as part of its…
By Mac Slavo – SHTFplan.com The threat of a large-scale terrorist attack caused by chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons of mass destruction has been at the forefront of investigations in recent months, so much so that in March the White House issued a warning highlighting the four most likely scenarios for a nuclear attack on U.S. soil. Following…
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or other critical infrastructure can do so with a simple Internet search, primarily because some critical systems are outdated and lack even password protection, an NBC News investigation has found.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.…
Image source: YouTube screen capture By Daniel Jennings – Off The Grid News The possibility of a cyberattack on critical infrastructure such as America’s electric power worries National Security Agency (NSA) Director Admiral Michael Rogers, who told a cyber security conference that it’s a “matter of when, not if” hackers successfully attack America’s power grid.…
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…
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