Electrifying: Play-By-Play

via William Knowle's Infosec News (a security news compilation organization), comes this fascinating North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) report document (expertly presented by E&ENews Reporter Blake Sobczak) - ostensibly, a 'play-by-play' of the first cyberattack of a US Energy Utility. Think it can't happen here? It already has...

"But the March 5 event was significant enough to spur the victim utility to report it to the Department of Energy, marking the first disruptive "cyber event" on record for the U.S. power grid (Energywire, April 30). The case offered a stark demonstration of the risks U.S. power utilities face as their critical control networks grow more digitized and interconnected — and more exposed to hackers. "Have as few internet facing devices as possible," NERC urged in its report." - via E&ENews reporter Blake Sobczak

We Are Now On The Offensive... The Target? The Russian Power Grid

via Paul Szoldra writing at Task And Purpose, comes a superlative piece on the United States Cyber Command's cible du jour: The Russian Power Grid. This news, arrives via outstanding reporting of two of the The New York Times' highly respected correspondents and authors, namely - David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth.

"In interviews over the past three months, the officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow’s disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections." - via correspondents David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth reporting for The New York Times'

Atlantic Council, 2019 Poland Cyber Security Conference, Day One →

Direct from the Atlantic Council's Poland Cyber Security Conference 2019, full Day One streaming. Enjoy.