Enlarge / Critical infrastructure sites such as this oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, rely on safety systems. (credit: IIP Photo Archive) For years, the hackers behind the malware known as Triton or Trisis have stood out as a uniquely dangerous threat to critical infrastructure: a group of digital intruders who attempted to sabotage industrial […]
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Enlarge (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images ) President Joe Biden’s climate ambitions will face a critical test on Monday as a major portion of the $3. 5 trillion reconciliation bill comes up for a vote. If it passes, the sprawling legislation will push the American economic climate to rein in its carbon emissions by spurring advancements […]
Enlarge / The Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant, operated by Saudi Aramco, in Hawiyah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, June 28, 2021. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, confirmed on Wednesday that some of its company files had been leaked via a contractor, after a cyber extortionist claimed to […]
Enlarge / Icicles hang off the State Highway 195 sign on February 18, 2021, in Killeen, Texas. A winter storm brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. (credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s office knew of looming […]
Enlarge (credit: Yuri Smityuk | Getty Images) For all the nation-state hacker groups that have targeted the United States power grid—and even successfully breached American electric utilities—only the Russian military intelligence group known as Sandworm has been brazen enough to trigger actual blackouts, shutting the lights off in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016. Now one […]
In under a calendar year, a single microscopic virus has attracted upheavals big and little from the way goods and people move around. Transit ridership is far down; auto traffic is rising. Individuals are ordering products on the internet instead of shopping in shops –UPS deliveries in the second quarter of the season were up […]
Expand / Richmond, the capital of Virginia, appearing scenic as viewed in around the James River. (charge: Sky Noir Photography from Bill Dickinson | Getty Images) Today is your final day to enroll to vote at the commonwealth of Virginia, therefore obviously the official site for upgrading or handling voter registration is still offline. Unlike […]