Experiment shows power grid vulnerable
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Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned.
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Grid architecture aims to protect corporate networks from interior security threats.
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SCIENTISTS have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead.   In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone orlaptop computer without wires or cables.
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A power failure with potentially devastating consequences at a new high-security research center provokes a critic's call for change.
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An industrial turbine overheating and crippling the power supply is one highlight on a Homeland Security video that deals with the possible outcome of a concentrated hacker attack on the American infrastructure.
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With so much focus on security in the enterprise, it might have been inevitable. A Swiss security research lab is testing the market for zero-day vulnerabilities at an auction site called WSLabi. Security researchers stateside are skeptical.
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The electric grid can be protected from big blackouts by deliberately disabling a few key power stations.
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Researchers in the U.S. say they've successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Web sites they are viewing.
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Internet Security Systems' intrusion prevention software on Crossbeam Systems security switches.
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Federal regulators on Thursday approved the first cyber-security standards for the nation's electric industry, following growing concerns about the power grid's vulnerabilities.
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A proof-of-concept exploit for a TCP/IP flaw that affects Windows Vista and XP has security researchers ringing alarm bells, with one saying it could "be one of the biggest [vulnerabilities] of 2008."
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Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week.
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The Department of Energy has entered into a research and development agreement with TECSys to develop software aimed at monitoring and securing systems to help control the nation's electricity infrastructure.
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The damage to a utility's underground network in the borough of Queens is greater than imagined &#151; a twist in the six-day power outage that could mean electricity won't be back until early in the week, the mayor said Saturday.
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Recently discovered vulnerability allows hackers to use Web graphics to launch attacks.
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Researchers have developed an electrical generator mounted on the knee that turns walks into watts.
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By Rasha Madkour  HOUSTON  --  Imagine rewiring your house while living in it. Now imagine you're not even sure the new power system will work and you're 220 miles above the Earth.