FERC and Cybersecurity: It’s Complicated [PODCAST]

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:26:43 +0000

Carol Holahan, counsel in Foley Hoag’s Energy & Cleantech practice, was a guest on The POWER Podcast. Holahan advises large regional generators and other participants in the wholesale and retail competitive electricity markets on policy initiatives, changing environmental regulations, decommissioning and sale of plants, and matters pending before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). During […]

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Exposed Chinese database shows depth of surveillance state

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 07:26:22 +0000

Exposed Chinese database shows depth of surveillance state

The Chinese database Victor Gevers found online was a compilation of real-time data on more than 2.5 million people in western China.

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China accuses US of trying to block its tech development

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:08:13 +0000

Woman passing in front of Huawei store in Beijing

China’s government on Monday accused the United States of trying to block its industrial development by alleging that Chinese mobile network gear poses a cybersecurity threat to countries rolling out new internet systems.

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DOE and FERC Mull Incentivizing Cybersecurity, Physical Security of Power and Gas Infrastructure

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:22:17 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) want to explore how federal and state authorities could incentivize cybersecurity and physical security in the power and natural gas sectors. The agencies issued a notice on Feb. 4announcing they would jointly hold a technical conference on Thursday, March 28, 2019, from 10 […]

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Connected Plant 2019  ‘Game Changers’: The People Behind Digital Innovation

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 20:21:23 +0000

Behind the digital tools that make the industrial internet of things (IIOT) in the power generation and chemical process industries are people. The upcoming Connected Plant Conference—Feb. 19–21, 2019, in Charlotte, North Carolina—will recognize the achievements of 11 individuals and companies who are fast risers in the field. Through insight and experience, these “Game Changer” champions […]

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Kaspersky Lab: Two Notorious Russian speaking hacking groups found sharing infrastructure

Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:47:25 +0000

Kaspersky Lab experts have identified an overlap in cyberattacks between two infamous threat actors, GreyEnergy – which is believed to be a successor of BlackEnergy – and the Sofacy cyberespionage group. Both actors used the same servers at the same time, with, however, a different purpose.

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Kaspersky Lab helps eliminate vulnerabilities in Industrial IoT Platform

Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:44:01 +0000

Kaspersky Lab experts have helped to identify and patch seven previously unknown vulnerabilities in the ThingsPro Suite – an industrial IoT platform, designed for industrial control systems (ICS) data acquisition and remote analysis.

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Prince Charles’ charity stops accepting Huawei donations

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:45:37 +0000

Prince Charles' charity stops accepting Huawei donations

The charity founded by Prince Charles said it won’t accept donations anymore from Huawei, which battles allegations of cybersecurity risk.

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Huawei founder denies spy allegations

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:07:41 +0000

Ren Zhengfei

The founder of Huawei Technologies Co denied all spying allegations in a rare media interview, as the Chinese tech company looks to combat overseas challenges to enable it to grow its revenue to $125 billion in 2019.

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