Welcome to March Madness — although if your brackets look
anything like mine do this morning, it is not particularly
"welcome." Let's just say that there is
no danger of my winning Warren Buffet's $1 billion.
Privacy and cybersecurity continue to be hot topics and the
breaches roll on. Here are some privacy and security
bits and bytes for this Monday morning.
Wall Street Journal Article Jeopardizes Security of Grid?
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article detailing how the U.S. "could
suffer a coast-to-cost blackout" if someone took out just nine
specific substations. The article doesn't name the nine
substations, and most of the later half of the article is actually
devoted to a rehashing of the Pacific Gas & Electric Metcalf
substation attack from last year. But, it was certainly
enough to raise the hackles of regulators and utility
executives.
