Congress looks to revive critical cyber program for rural electric utilities
A House committee reauthorized an Energy Department program that funnels hundreds of millions of dollars and cybersecurity assistance to rural electric utilities.
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DOE announces $45 million investment for cybersecurity research
The funding goes to 16 projects aimed at developing advanced tools to protect the energy sector.
Russian hackers disrupted Ukrainian electrical grid last year
The notorious Russian hacking group known as Sandworm took down a substation that caused a brief outage, according to a new Mandiant report.
Wind turbine giant Vestas says data was compromised in security incident
The company says it's getting its systems back online.
Senior Department of Energy cyber official to step down
Bruce Walker has been a key player in the department’s efforts to protect U.S. utilities from state-sponsored hacking threats.
Cyberattack hits internal IT systems of key player in British power market
Employees don't have email access, but external systems aren't affected.
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North American utilities drill ‘GridEx’ brings record turnout — except from supply chain vendors
GridEx used mock malware modeled after the 2016 cyberattack in Ukraine.
Hackers had access to European electricity organization’s email server for weeks: report
Unidentified hackers reportedly used an open-source tool to communicate with the server for over a month.