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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Hitting it out of the park: Cybersecurity is a whole new ballgame


Hitting it out of the park: Cybersecurity is a whole new ballgame
In April 2013, an attack on Pacific Gas & Electric's (PG&E) Metcalf transmission substation near San Jose, Calif. knocked the station out of commission. The attackers cut fiber optic cables and opened fire on the substation. Although the attack wasn't well-publicized in the media, it became a call for utility companies to reassess their security. Articlehttp://www.fiercesmartgrid.com/story/hitting-it-out-park-cybersecurity-whole-new-ballgame/2014-04-16?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

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