{"id":354,"date":"2016-01-02T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2016\/01\/02\/power-grid-vulnerable-to-hacking-3-reasons-why\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T15:06:00","slug":"power-grid-vulnerable-to-hacking-3-reasons-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/power-grid-vulnerable-to-hacking-3-reasons-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Grid Vulnerable to Hacking. 3 Reasons Why."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A cyber security researcher in California discovered that\u00a0Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the networks running the United States power grid.\n<ul>\n<li>Digital clues show hackers tied to Iran have possession of passwords and\u00a0engineering drawings of dozens of power plants<\/li>\n<li>In 2012 and 2013 Russian hackers sent encrypted commands to points on the US\u00a0power grid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why is the power grid so vulnerable?<\/strong>\u00a0An\u00a0aging, outdated power system<\/li>\n<li>Just like other hacks, vulnerabilities occur in 3rd party providers\n<ul>\n<li>Hundreds of contractors sell software and equipment to energy companies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/business\/technology\/article50867170.html\">Sacramento Bee |\u00a0AP Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A cyber security researcher in California discovered that\u00a0Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the networks running the United States power grid.\n<ul>\n<li>Digital clues show hackers tied to Iran have possession of passwords and\u00a0engineering drawings of dozens of power plants<\/li>\n<li>In 2012 and 2013 Russian hackers sent encrypted commands to points on the US\u00a0power grid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why is the power grid so vulnerable?<\/strong>\u00a0An\u00a0aging, outdated power system<\/li>\n<li>Just like other hacks, vulnerabilities occur in 3rd party&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-utilities","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}