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Compromising vital infrastructure: how voting machines and elections are vulnerable

October 23, 2018 admin compromising voting machines, cybercrime, denial-of-service attacks, Elections, hacking, Infrastructure, machines, voting, voting machines

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

What are our options for secure and honest election results? Should we be using voting machines or are there better alternatives?

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Reduce power outages by unleashing the digital power distribution grid

September 23, 2017 admin Access to Energy, Digital transformation, hurricanes, Infrastructure, microgrid, Smart Grid, Utilities

Credit to Author: Frederic Abbal| Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 21:35:22 +0000

Recent hurricanes have brought devastation to Puerto Rico, parts of Texas, the Caribbean, and Florida, causing millions of people to lose access to the grid. These unusually frequent catastrophic events remind… Read more »

The post Reduce power outages by unleashing the digital power distribution grid appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

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Trump’s FCC Will Let Big Telecom Destroy Small Houston ISPs As It Rebuilds After Harvey

September 15, 2017 admin Broadband, Broadband Land, digital divide, Hurricane Harvey, hurricanes, Infrastructure, Natural Disasters

Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:33:59 +0000

The FCC has rules in place to prevent Big Telecom from leaving local competitors in the lurch, but it’s currently scrapping those rules.

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Canada Will Study How Solar Storms Threaten Our Energy Grid

September 6, 2017 admin Canada, Canadian Space Agency, Coronal Mass Ejection, discoveries, energy grid, Infrastructure, Natural Resources Canada, Read, space, sun

Credit to Author: Kate Lunau| Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000

“Our technology is getting more advanced, so we’re more susceptible to space weather.”

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That Dallas Siren Hack Wasn’t Novel—It Was Just Really Loud

April 10, 2017 admin Critical Infrastructure, hacks, Infrastructure, Radio, Security

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:39:37 +0000

That Dallas Siren Hack Wasn’t Novel—It Was Just Really Loud

Emergency alert systems get hacked all the time. Consider this one a wake-up call. The post That Dallas Siren Hack Wasn’t Novel—It Was Just Really Loud appeared first on WIRED.

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Squirrels Keep Menacing the Power Grid. But at Least It’s Not the Russians

January 22, 2017 admin cyberattacks, cyberwar, electric grid, Infrastructure, power grid, Security, squirrels

A site that chronicles animals versus the power grid makes a good point about cyberwar hype, but an attack would still be serious business. The post Squirrels Keep Menacing the Power Grid. But at Least It’s Not the Russians appeared first on WIRED.