Oct 26, 2020
8 min read
Our Electrical Grid Is Deeply Vulnerable to Hackers and Storms
There are easy ways to protect it — if the government acts
On March 5, 2019, hackers targeted the U.S. electrical grid. For around 10 hours, operators in California, Utah, and Wyoming experienced “blind spots” — temporary losses of visibility to parts of the control system. Communication went down at some remote power…
