Pentagon Researchers Test 'Worst-Case Scenario' Attack on US Power Grid
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Pentagon Researchers Test Worst-Case Scenario Attack on US Power Grid
In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo, contractors walk past a capacitor bank at an AEP electrical transmission substation in Westerville, Ohio.
AP PHOTO/JOE MINCHILLO
BY JOSEPH MARKS
SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, NEXTGOV
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Over 100 people gathered off the tip of Long Island this month to roleplay a cyberattack that takes out the U.S. electric grid for weeks on end.
Plum Island, N.Y. The team of grid operators had spent days restoring power when a digital strike took out one of two operational utility stations. The other utility was also under attack.
A month had passed since all power in the region was taken down by a devastating cyberattack. It had been a grueling six days restoring power across two electrical utilities and to the building deemed a critical national asset by the Secretary of Energy.
The cyber strike hadnt forced the team back to zero, but it wasnt far from it.
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