Hackers staged a blackout in Brazil
Mass interruptions in power supply in Brazil, as it turned out, were the work of hackers who manipulated control systems. These are cases of power cuts, including a two-day blackout on September 26-27, 2007, when more than 3 million people were left without electricity in several dozen cities.
A few hours ago, CBS showed a program about this unique case of cyber-terrorism and about the possible repetition of such attacks. Americans are very afraid that hackers will soon get to their energy system.
The former director of national intelligence of the United States says that in order to inflict strategic damage on a country, it makes sense to launch such an attack in the hottest or coldest time of the year when networks are under maximum load. Attack is better to start on the east coast. The task of the hacker is to disable several generators in such a way as to initiate a cascade shutdown of the subsystems.
To destroy the generator, you need to turn off the automation, transfer the generator to manual mode and run it in extreme mode. As studies have shown (the Aurora experiment conducted by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Labs laboratory), this is really feasible.
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As part of the experiment, a 27-ton generator, accessed via the Internet, was brought to self-destruction (see 15–16 minutes of video).
A few hours ago, CBS showed a program about this unique case of cyber-terrorism and about the possible repetition of such attacks. Americans are very afraid that hackers will soon get to their energy system.
The former director of national intelligence of the United States says that in order to inflict strategic damage on a country, it makes sense to launch such an attack in the hottest or coldest time of the year when networks are under maximum load. Attack is better to start on the east coast. The task of the hacker is to disable several generators in such a way as to initiate a cascade shutdown of the subsystems.
To destroy the generator, you need to turn off the automation, transfer the generator to manual mode and run it in extreme mode. As studies have shown (the Aurora experiment conducted by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Labs laboratory), this is really feasible.
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As part of the experiment, a 27-ton generator, accessed via the Internet, was brought to self-destruction (see 15–16 minutes of video).
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/74689/
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