{"id":95895,"date":"2019-09-07T08:04:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T15:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/security-report-reveals-play-by-play-of-first-u-s-grid-cyberattack-friday-september-6-2019-net"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:04:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T15:04:35","slug":"security-report-reveals-play-by-play-of-first-u-s-grid-cyberattack-friday-september-6-2019-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/security-report-reveals-play-by-play-of-first-u-s-grid-cyberattack-friday-september-6-2019-net","title":{"rendered":"SECURITY: Report reveals play-by-play of first U.S. grid cyberattack \u2014 Friday, September 6, 2019 -.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/security-report-reveals-play-by-play-of-first-u-s-grid-cyberattack-friday-september-6-2019-net2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A first-of-its-kind cyberattack on the U.S. grid created blind spots at a grid control center and several small power generation sites in the western United States, according to a document posted yesterday from the North American Electric Reliability Corp.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented cyber disruption this spring did not cause any blackouts, and none of the signal outages at the \u201clow-impact\u201d control center lasted for longer than five minutes, NERC said in the \u201cLesson Learned\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nerc.com\/pa\/rrm\/ea\/Lessons%20Learned%20Document%20Library\/20190901_Risks_Posed_by_Firewall_Firmware_Vulnerabilities.pdf\">document<\/a> posted to the grid regulator\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201ccyber event\u201d on record for the U.S. power grid (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060242741\/\"><em>Energywire<\/em><\/a>, April 30).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first-of-its-kind cyberattack on the U.S. grid created blind spots at a grid control center and several small power generation sites in the western United States, according to a document posted yesterday from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. The unprecedented cyber disruption this spring did not cause any blackouts, and none of the signal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}