A power plant employee adjusts the wiring of a power unit in North Texas. The Texas energy sector has been increasingly probed for weaknesses by computer hackers from Russia, according to a cybersecurity expert whose company has monitored cyber threats in Texas., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
“We are on super high alert,” said Thad Hill, CEO of Texas power giant Calpine, adding that he has been closely monitoring Russia’s cyber actions.that the White House has “evolving intelligence that the Russian government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks” — the administration’s starkest warning yet.
Lee, who previously worked at the National Security Agency, where he helped design the U.S. government’s system for tracking state-backed hackers, said his company has traced the hackers recently probing Texas energy infrastructure and discovered they’re Russian. “We are certainly a target,” Sean Strawbridge, CEO of the Port of Corpus Christi, said in an interview.
Regulators overseeing Texas’ power grid, the smallest of the three in the U.S., said the grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, and the Public Utility Commission of Texas thatBut ERCOT was unable to keep the power on last year when a winter storm hammered Texas, leaving millions without power for days and hundreds dead.
In West Texas, the nation’s biggest oil producing region, a February hacking attempt on a local hospital system has some local officials on edge.
And if this sector is worth a dam, the real story SHOULD BE that the attacks have been defeated.
SenTedCruz JohnCornyn need to call in a favor from their Russian pal, Putin.
February 24 of 2022 Vladimir Putin started the last war of the human race, WW3. All 8 billion of us will die in it! -- People should do something to stop this!
This is a world war.
But at leas trans kids can’t receive the proper medical care they need, amirite? If you’re propping up our failed GOP overlords, you’re the problem. VoteThemAllOut2022
Russian cyber attacks are the second biggest threat to Texas power grid. GregAbbott_TX is the biggest threat.
Not Surprising!
I thought crazy SenatorBobHall was on top of this.
Maybe. Or they're using this as an excuse for their own incompetence.
kat_pep_ They won’t have to look too hard .
What can Russia do to fuck up our grid that state officials haven't done already
Not much in term of damage they can do that the texas government didn't already do. We saw that last February.
I wonder if the Republican Politicians of Texas will help the Russians disrupt the oil supply inorder to make gas more expensive and to tank the economy for the 2022 election !
In the mean time --- ON MARCH 24, 2022 US LIFTS RUSSIAN SANCTIONS on AGRICUTURAL COMMODITIES [inc. food, seeds, fertilizers], MEDICINE, & MEDICAL DEVICES for US farmers, medical device manufacturers. US government and media censored. :-)
Shouldn't they love Texas of all US states? Seems Russia has the most allies over there. Also Texas is the main state to weaken the US.
I'm sure there some friendlies in the TX GOP who are willing to assist them.
They should just ask GregAbbott_TX to give it to them.
I’m down to hook up
Who ever thought it was a great idea to tie electric grids to a computer and eliminate all manual switching and control? Haven't there been enough Hollywood movies with this script to teach us a lesson? How f~g stupid are we? Pull the plug!