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Category Archives: Infrastructure Attacks
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and other ways to bring down the electric grid
Preface. At some point of energy decline the electric grid will fail, and civilization will take a giant step downward (financial systems gone, knowledge stored gone, computers / phones inoperable) and so on. “Reliance on this most flexible and most … Continue reading
Oil Choke Points vulnerable to war, chaos, terrorism, piracy
Source: Ballout, D. 2013. Choke Points: Our energy access points. Oil Change. Million Barrels per day / 2009 world Oil Transit Chokepoints 15.5 / Strait of Hormuz, 20 to 25% of the world’s daily crude oil production 13.6 / Strait … Continue reading
Posted in Chokepoints, Infrastructure Attacks, Oil & Gas, Oil Shocks, Threats to oil supply
Tagged abqaiq, chokepoint, Ras Tanura, strait
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Emergency drill: Cyberattack on electric grid
[ America is so vulnerable to cyber attack or war from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and other nations that I doubt we will ever attack them. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, CyberAttacks, Infrastructure Attacks
Tagged cyber attack
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Energy infrastructure cyberattack targets
An Attack on Energy Infrastructure would affect all other Infrastructure Developments in digital information and telecommunications dramatically increased interdependencies among the Nation’s critical infrastructures. Each depends on others to function successfully. Disruptions in a single infrastructure can generate disturbances within … Continue reading
Posted in CyberAttacks, Infrastructure Attacks, Natural Gas, Oil
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What would happen if the electric grid was cyberattacked?
Almost every aspect of American life depends on electricity—from producing goods to saving lives, from defending the country to conducting electronic banking and commerce, from simple communications to feeding our families safely. It could take 1 to 2 years before … Continue reading
Posted in CyberAttacks, Electric Grid, Infrastructure Attacks
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Actual cyber attacks
[ There are too many cyber attacks to keep track of so I’ve stopped putting them in here. If you do an internet search on “list of cyber attacks” you’ll get many hits (i.e. the Wiki list, hackmageddon, etc). Not … Continue reading
Posted in CyberAttacks, Infrastructure Attacks
Tagged cyber attack, cyberattack
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