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"Total Chaos" - Cyber Attack Feared As Multiple Cities Hit With Simultaneous Power Grid Failures
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The U.S. power grid appears to have been hit with multiple power outages affecting San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.

Officials report that business, traffic and day-to-day life has come to a standstill in San Francisco, reportedly the worst hit of the three major cities currently experiencing outages.

Power companies in all three regions have yet to elaborate on the cause, though a fire at a substation was the original reason given by San Francisco officials.

A series of subsequent power outages in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City left commuters stranded and traffic backed up on Friday morning. Although the outages occurred around the same time, there is as of yet no evidence that they were connected by anything more than coincidence.



The first outage occurred at around 7:20 a.m. in New York, when the power went down at the 7th Avenue and 53rd Street subway station, which sent a shockwave of significant delays out from the hub and into the rest of the subway system. By 11:30 a.m. the city’s MTA confirmed that generators were running again in the station, although the New York subways were set to run delayed into the afternoon.





Later in the morning, power outages were reported in Los Angeles International Airport, as well as in several other areas around the city.





Via : Inverse



The San Francisco Fire Department was responding to more than 100 calls for service in the Financial District and beyond, including 20 elevators with people stuck inside, but reported no immediate injuries. Everywhere, sirens blared as engines maneuvered along streets jammed with traffic.





Traffic lights were out at scores of intersections, and cars were backing up on downtown streets as drivers grew frustrated and honked at each other.

Via: SF Gate

The cause of the outage has not yet been made clear, though given the current geo-political climate it is not out of the question to suggest a cyber attack could be to blame. It has also been suggested that the current outages could be the result of a secretive nuclear/EMP drill by the federal government.

As we have previously reported, the entire national power grid has been mapped by adversaries of the United States and it is believed that sleep trojans or malware may exist within the computer systems that maintain the grid.

In a 2016 report it was noted that our entire way of life has been left vulnerable to saboteurs who could cause cascading blackouts across the United States for days or weeks at a time:

It isn’t just EMPs and natural disaster that poses a threat to the grid, but there is also the potential for attacks on individual power substations in the vast network of decentralized and largely unguarded power grid chain. A U.S. government study established that there would be “major, extended blackouts if more than three key substations were destroyed.”



Whether by criminals, looters, terrorists, gangs or pranksters, it would take very little to bring down the present system, and there is currently very little the system can do to protect against this wide open threat.

Whether the current outages are the result of a targeted infrastructure cyber attack or simply a coincidence, most Americans think the impossible can’t happen, as The Prepper’s Blueprint author Tess Pennington highlights, a grid-down scenario won’t just be a minor inconvenience if it goes on for more than a day or two:

Consider, for a moment, how drastically your life would change without the continuous flow of energy the grid delivers. While manageable during a short-term disaster, losing access to the following critical elements of our just-in-time society would wreak havoc on the system.



Challenges or shut downs of business commerce
Breakdown of our basic infrastructure: communications, mass transportation, supply chains
Inability to access money via atm machines
Payroll service interruptions
Interruptions in public facilities – schools, workplaces may close, and public gatherings.
Inability to have access to clean drinking water

It is for this reason that we have long encouraged Americans to prepare for this potentially devastating scenario by considering emergency food reserves, clean water reserves and even home defense strategies in the event of a widespread outage. The majority of Americans have about 3 days worth of food in their pantry. Imagine for a moment what Day 4 might look like in any major city that goes dark.

This exclusive clip from American Blackout shows what an American Blackout might look like:

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‘Totally surreal’: Blackouts hit LA, New York and San Francisco
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Power outages hit Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, leaving commuters stranded and traffic backed up Friday. About 90,000 customers were affected in San Francisco.

While the outages occurred around the same time there is no evidence they were connected or coordinated.

Major #PowerOutage in San Francisco & New York pic.twitter.com/ri93FTfGgN
— KRISTIN ELIZABETH (@KristinEliz23) April 21, 2017

NEW YORK

The first outage occurred at around 7:20am in New York when the power went down at 7th Avenue and 53rd Street subway station. That sent a shockwave of delays into the rest of the subway system.

Several subway lines suspended after power loss at 53rd Street, MTA says: https://t.co/1G42Molj8ppic.twitter.com/FWORMwLqOi
— DNAinfo New York (@DNAinfoNY) April 21, 2017

A Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman told AP some passengers were stranded on trains. Some cars were dark except for phone light, and some riders say their commutes took two to three hours. Stations were packed.

COMMUTER CHAOS: Subway service crippled along multiple lines after MTA power snafu https://t.co/12QDD4TDK9pic.twitter.com/HXOPVbUKt4
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 21, 2017

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for a state investigation into the power outrage that ruined Friday's commute for many straphangers.

"The loss of power due to a Con Edison equipment failure during the morning rush hour caused a cascading effect and impacted the lives of thousands of commuters," Cuomo said in a statement. "Simply put, this was completely unacceptable.”

“The @MTA started the weekend early, I guess? Power outage at 53rd & everything is crazy,” one commuter wrote on Twitter.

So I saw an E train at 145th Street this morning. The @MTA started the weekend early, I guess? Power outage at 53rd & everything is crazy. pic.twitter.com/vqPcPtGLeh
— Elizabeth (@onsugarhill) April 21, 2017

The weekend is when the MTA does many of its major subway repairs and cuts or reduces subway service.

“It took me an hour and 20 mins to go one stop, give up, find my way out of this mob, then walk back home @MTA,” wrote Liz Baker on Twitter.

It took me an hour and 20 mins to go one stop, give up, find my way out of this mob, then walk back home @mtapic.twitter.com/BWYA9J8fd3
— Liz Baker (@lizabeth_baker) April 21, 2017

By 11:30am, MTA spokesman, Kevin Ortiz, confirmed the generators were running again at the station, and delays were cleared up by the afternoon.

The utility company, Con Edison, said one of its electric lines triggered the outage. Spokesman Allan Drury told AP it is not clear how long the repairs will take or how the failure occurred.

We’re working jointly with the @MTA to make repairs to underground equipment serving the @NYCTSubway system as quickly as possible.
— Con Edison (@ConEdison) April 21, 2017

LOS ANGELES

Later in the morning, power outages were reported in Los Angeles International Airport, as well as in several other areas around the city.
SAN FRANCISCO

In San Francisco, the power outages were widespread.

SF #PowerOutage totally surreal pic.twitter.com/PyIMQYBVN8
— Dylan Gale (@dylanmgale) April 21, 2017

The utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric, said a series of outages began at 9 am and within 30 minutes about 90,000 customers lost power.

All businesses with the lights off. No traffic lights! #poweroutage#SFpic.twitter.com/8dK9Yp07Un
— Beatriz (@beamoments) April 21, 2017

PG&E spokeswoman Tamar Sarkissian said crews are assessing the situation but there's no immediate estimate for when power will be restored.

PGE officials are pointing to a substation fire as the primary cause of the outage, but have given no public estimates as to when power will be restored.

The blackout includes the Financial District, Presidio and stretch to the Marina/Cow Hollow area, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

ISP map produced by @monkeybrainsnet showing areas impacted by current power outage in SF. https://t.co/ObxyYedNTdpic.twitter.com/i0RXuYa7wt
— Jane Kim (@JaneKim) April 21, 2017

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Traffic lights were out at scores of intersections, and cars backed up on downtown streets as drivers grew frustrated and honked at each other.

BART’s Montgomery Station was closed for more than two hours, with trains running through the station without stopping, before the agency reopened it.

Montgomery Bart Station is a bit creepy with no power... #sf#poweroutage#bart *Image copyright @BWFeldman * @CBSSF@[email protected]/kEiQhtRmBe
— Benjamin Feldman (@BWFeldman) April 21, 2017

All cable cars were down, as were several Muni bus lines that typically run on electricity from overhead wires,. Shuttles were put in place to provide service, according to the Municipal Transportation Agency.

Stay up to date with the latest on the power outage in San Francisco here: https://t.co/NRlR4WqY0Ypic.twitter.com/fgeaa6LGeq
— KQED News (@KQEDnews) April 21, 2017

The blackout took out traffic signals, affecting office buildings with residents and workers in the area calling it “totally surreal.”

Twenty-one schools in San Francisco were affected by the outage that affected utilities, including the internet, but they remained open and their schedules adjusted. Families were to be notified if there were changes at the schools.

The Philip Burton Federal Building and US Courthouse were closed down by the outage.

#SFFD says insulation fire at #PG&E substation may be related to #poweroutage. Can't use water, may damage equipment pic.twitter.com/HanN97IBbC
— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) April 21, 2017

The San Francisco Fire Department said it has responded to more than 100 calls for service since a power outage struck a large area of the city. No injuries were reported.

Downtown in the SF #poweroutage - shops shuttered, people on the street, many fire trucks @KQEDnewspic.twitter.com/nvpV4vfFAl
— Miranda Leitsinger (@mimileitsinger) April 21, 2017

The department tweeted that the calls included 20 elevators with people stuck inside.
The department adds there have been no delays in responding to calls.

@bbehlepic.twitter.com/e8uvS7tNMQ
— Jessica Vickers (@jess_vickerz) April 21, 2017

Daisy Prado, a 23-year-old South Bay resident, told the San Francisco Chronicle she was sitting at her desk on the 14th floor of an office building in the Financial District when the power suddenly dropped out. She looked out the window and saw the buildings across the street go dark.

“They told us on an intercom to just stay calm,” Prado said. “People are hanging out the side of their buildings waiting to see what’s going to happen.”

Pacific Gas and Electric’s own outage map shows thousands affected and current estimates indicate that the outage is hitting up to 100,000 customers.

At a 2:00 pm press conference, city officials said 300 traffic signals went still down, with either flashing red or no signals, in the North East section of the San Francisco. The city employed 100 parking patrol officers to help with traffic control.

Drivers were asked to treat intersections as 'Always Stop.'

There had been no reports of traffic collisions.

San Francisco Police Chief, Bill Scott, said "Our major issue is traffic."


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Authorities: San Francisco blackout not linked to smaller outages in other U.S. cities

By Kurtis Alexander Updated 2:18 pm, Friday, April 21, 2017

Benjamin W. Feldman took this photo in the Montgomery BART Station during a power outage that hit large areas of San Francisco on April, 21, 2017. Photo: Courtesy Benjamin W. Feldman / Twitter @BWFeldman

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Benjamin W. Feldman took this photo in the Montgomery BART Station during a power outage that hit large areas of San Francisco on April, 21, 2017.

San Francisco police said the city’s mass blackout on Friday was not linked to power outages in other parts of the country.

Recent smaller outages in New York City and Los Angeles had nothing to do with the nearly 90,000 city homes and businesses that lost electricity about 9 a.m. Friday, according to the San Francisco Police Department.

The department said the local outage was due to an “equipment failure,” though neither police nor PG&E has provided more specific information about the cause.

Police officials seemed to be responding in part to social media users who wondered if the blackouts across the country were connected in some way.

In New York City on Friday, a power station that serves the subway failed about 8 a.m., causing signal problems for the underground train and resulting commuter backups, according to Con Edison, the city’s primary power provider.

A large power outage leaves over 90,000 residents without power in San Francisco on April 21, 2017.
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“It’s not like what you guys had,” Michael Clendenin, a Con Edison spokesman, told The Chronicle. “You had outages of actual buildings and businesses.”

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reported minor “flickering” of lights at the airport Thursday due to a problem at a small West Los Angeles substation.

Kurtis Alexander is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @kurtisalexander

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San Francisco comes to a standstill as power outage hits nearly 100,000 causing traffic chaos, trapping residents in elevators and even halting the city's famous cable cars


Power outages hit major cities on both coasts during Friday morning commute
In San Francisco financial district, thousands without power for hours
Over 20 rescue calls for people trapped in elevators; traffic pandaemonium
Insulation fire at substation blamed; service set to be restored shortly for most
In New York, subway thrown into disarray as two lines taken out of service
Commuters left stranded on trains lit only by cell phone lights

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A blackout left 95,000 without power in downtown San Francisco, trapping more than 20 people in elevators and causing traffic chaos on the same day New York's subway was crippled by a power outage.

The outages on either coast both occurred on Friday morning, throwing America's first and fifth largest rapid transit systems into disarray at the peak of the two cities' morning rush hours.

The power outage in San Francisco stalled work in the technology and finance center as a vast swath of the financial district lost electricity around 9am local time. Office workers spilled onto city streets in the heart of the business district, milling about as traffic snarled, since stoplights were not working.

An insulation fire at a PG&E substation at Larkin and Eddy streets is the reported cause of the outages. The fire has been contained and local media reports that PG&E hopes to restore power by 1pm for most customers.

The San Francisco Fire Department says it has responded to more than 100 calls for service since the blackout struck, including 20 calls for people stuck in elevators.

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Gridlock: A view on downtown San Francisco shows traffic at a standstill on Friday. Power outages knocked out traffic lights throughout the central and northern part of the city

Gridlock: A view on downtown San Francisco shows traffic at a standstill on Friday. Power outages knocked out traffic lights throughout the central and northern part of the city
Tourists take pictures of an immobile cable car during a blackout in downtown San Francisco

Tourists take pictures of an immobile cable car during a blackout in downtown San Francisco
This map from internet service provider Monkeybrains shows the approximate blackout zone. The key in the top right refers to the number of client buildings in the zone without internet

This map from internet service provider Monkeybrains shows the approximate blackout zone. The key in the top right refers to the number of client buildings in the zone without internet
San Francisco fire department crews stand outside of an electric substation where a fire occurred, which might have caused the citywide power outage on Friday

San Francisco fire department crews stand outside of an electric substation where a fire occurred, which might have caused the citywide power outage on Friday

Fire crews responded to the Larkin Street substation and vault, where smoke was seen billowing from the facility. Officials said the fire was the primary cause of the blackout.

California Pacific Medical Center was forced to close its operating room and switch to emergency backup power.

However, no injuries related to the blackout have been reported.
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The Montgomery Street BART station was plunged into darkness and shut down due to the blackout.

Transit officials were able to connect a portable generator and restore power by about 11.30am, bringing the light rail station back online.

In the financial district, businesses closed their doors and posted signs saying they were closed without electricity.

The outage affected central and northern parts of the city, according to the city's Department of Emergency Management.

Gridlocked spread throughout the city, as traffic lights were out and cable cars were stuck idle on the pavement, unable to move.
Patron sit in the dark at Swan Oyster Depot in San Francisco on Friday. Nearly 100,000 people were left without power during a citywide blackout believed to be caused by a substation fire

Patron sit in the dark at Swan Oyster Depot in San Francisco on Friday. Nearly 100,000 people were left without power during a citywide blackout believed to be caused by a substation fire
The Montgomery Bay Area Rapid Transit station was dark following a power outage Friday in San Francisco

The Montgomery Bay Area Rapid Transit station was dark following a power outage Friday in San Francisco
San Francisco: A fire truck at top left and other traffic try to make their way around a pair of idled cablecars on California Street after a large power outage Friday

San Francisco: A fire truck at top left and other traffic try to make their way around a pair of idled cablecars on California Street after a large power outage Friday
A San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officer directs traffic at an intersection with street lights out during a citywide power outage

A San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officer directs traffic at an intersection with street lights out during a citywide power outage
Office workers wait for building elevators to resume working during a power cut in downtown San Francisco. SFFD said it responded to 20 calls of workers stuck in elevators Friday

Office workers wait for building elevators to resume working during a power cut in downtown San Francisco. SFFD said it responded to 20 calls of workers stuck in elevators Friday

King Lip, chief investment officer at Baker Avenue Asset Management in San Francisco said his offices had been hit.

'It's pretty big, seems like half the city has no power. It´s a big deal. All our systems went down. We were in the middle of a trade, luckily we have cloud based software so all the trades are saved and we´re going to have our people in Texas or New York execute it,' he said.

The department adds there have been no delays in responding to calls.

Officials with the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management acknowledged the 'coincidence' of smaller outages in the Los Angeles airport and New York City subway on Friday, but said the San Francisco event was due to equipment failure.
San Francisco: A sign informs customers that a restaurant is closed due to the power cut

San Francisco: A sign informs customers that a restaurant is closed due to the power cut
NEW YORK POWER OUTAGE THROWS SUBWAY INTO DISARRAY

In New York on Friday, the power went out around 7.30am local time at 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Service was suspended on the B and C lines and modified on five other lines, creating crowding and delays throughout the system.

MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said some passengers were stranded on trains, and some cars were dark except for phone lights.

Some riders say their commutes took two or three hours. Stations were packed.

Generators restored some power by lunchtime. 'B'' and 'D'' service was inching back around 11:30 a.m. But residual delays continued.

The MTA repeatedly cited 'a Con Edison power issue.'

But utility spokesman Bob McGee said the cause hadn't been pinpointed and Con Edison isn't the only power source there.

New York: People wait on the platform at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station as trains idle on Friday in Brooklyn. A power outage at a midtown Manhattan subway station caused widespread delays during the morning commute on Friday

New York: People wait on the platform at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station as trains idle on Friday in Brooklyn. A power outage at a midtown Manhattan subway station caused widespread delays during the morning commute on Friday



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There's No Evidence Linking Power Outages in San Francisco, New York, and LA

But it is kind of weird.

Dyani SabinCities April 21, 2017

A series of power outages in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City on Friday left people across the country struggling to complete their morning commutes. There is currently no evidence to suggest that this is more than just a coincidence, despite worries about some sort of cyber attack.

New York City was hit with outages at 6 a.m., followed by an outage in Los Angeles, and San Francisco later in the morning. Officials have announced that the the San Francisco outage was caused by a substation fire. No one has identified causes for the outages in New York or Los Angeles yet, but there are a number of possibilities based on major power outages that have shut down cities over the last few decades. There have not been any reports from officials linking the outages to a cyber attack.
Department of Energy: The Electrical Grid is Vulnerable

However, without causes for the outages, a number of people on Twitter have voiced anxieties about the series of outages being linked to a cyber attack. A report from January, in which the U.S. Department of Energy released a brief warning that the electrical system was vulnerable has only made those anxieties worse. No linkage between the outages has been substantiated, and blackouts occur semi-regularly due to software bugs, issues in grid-overload, and infrastructure problems like downed tree limbs.

Initially, it was unclear if the fire in the Larkin Street Pacific Gas and Electric Company Substation in San Francisco had fire caused the outages, or started after the power had already gone out. By 3:30 p.m. the company told Reuters that the fire at the substation was the primary cause of the outages in San Francisco.
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#SFFD says they don't know if the fire at the #PG&E substation started the power outage or the outage sparked fire. No injuries. @kron4news pic.twitter.com/n7XKSMJx49
— Maureen Kelly (@KRON4MKelly) April 21, 2017

Even if the other outages were not caused by fires like they were in San Francisco, massive power outages have occurred semi-regularly over the last 50 years. The blackout of the Northeast in 2003 was the most recent incident before Friday. At the time, the 2003 outage was the second largest blackout in the world, and caused by a bug in the software of an alarm system in a FirstEnergy control room in Ohio.

Other possibilities for today’s blackout include accidental overloads of the system during peak usage this morning. This happened in New York in 1965 when a transmission line was accidentally turned on and overloaded the electric grid, creating a domino effect that shut down the city.

This story is developing and the article will be updated as more information becomes available.




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New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Suffer Simultaneous Power Outages
By Zainab Calcuttawala - Apr 21, 2017, 5:21 PM CDT Blackout NYC

Three major U.S. cities struggled to power vital transport infrastructure on Friday, delaying work and travel for thousands of Americans just before the weekend.

New York’s subway B line lost power for roughly five hours, making the morning commute in the Big Apple especially painful, according to several reports emerging from the northern state.

The track lost power at the 7th Avenue and 53rd Street station at approximately 7:25 a.m. and rebooted at 12:36 p.m., subway officials told The New York Post. The B line runs from Brighton Beach in Brooklyn to Bedford Park in the Bronx.

The outage caused the D, E, and M routes to be rerouted, and delays in both directions of the A, B, C, D, E, F, J, M, N, Q and R trains.

Other power outages in Los Angeles and San Francisco occurred at the same time, but officials have yet to determine if the concurring disturbances were related.

The incident in LA affected the Los Angeles International Airport and several surrounding areas, while San Francisco suffered from a near black out, with traffic signals, public transport, and a majority of large office buildings in the dark since roughly 9 a.m. local time.

According to the United States Department of Energy, the American power grid is made up of three smaller grids, known as interconnections, which transport energy all over the country. The Eastern Interconnection provides electricity to states to the east of the Rocky Mountains, while the Western interconnection serves the Rocky Mountain states and those that border the Pacific Ocean. The locations of the cities affected by this morning’s outages suggests that there could be issues with both major grids.

Related: Don't Believe The Hype: Oil Markets Far From Recovery

The Texas Interconnected System is the third and smallest grid in the nation, and serves most of Texas, although small portions of the Lone Star state benefit from the other two grids.

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USA still trying to deny their powergrid control had been hacked.

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As war with North Korea approaches, Pentagon scrambling to protect U.S. power grid from cyber attacks, EMP burst

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 by: JD Heyes
Tags: cyber attack, EMP, Iran, North Korea, U.S. power grid
Image: As war with North Korea approaches, Pentagon scrambling to protect U.S. power grid from cyber attacks, EMP burst

(Natural News) Various reports claim that the United States may be preparing to strike North Korea after it conducted its sixth nuclear weapons test, over the weekend – a strike that, if it happens would likely invite retaliation from Pyongyang.

But the most damaging response the North Koreans could mount won’t come from its massive artillery force or its large army: It may come via computer keyboard, in the form of a cyber attack aimed at taking down large portions of the U.S. power grid. That, or an electromagnetic pulse caused by the airborne explosion of a nuclear weapon along the U.S. eastern seaboard.

As reported by the Washington Examiner, the Pentagon – worried about reports that either the North Koreans or Iran could deploy cyber tactics or nuclear bombs against America’s vulnerable electric infrastructure – is relying on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to come up with a defensive solution. (RELATED: North Korea Stepping Up Cyber Attacks Against The South)

The secretive agency has tasked BAE Systems, a major defense contractor, with mapping a system capable of detecting a cyber attack, as well as develop an alternative communications network that could be used by the military and civilians if the electrical grid is heavily damaged, reports the website Defense Systems.

Washington Examiner notes further:

Former CIA Director James Woolsey has been warning for years that the grid is extremely vulnerable, and recently the Pentagon and some states have taken the warning seriously. Woolsey and former EMP Commission chief of staff Peter Vincent Pry have pointed a finger at North Korea, which is now threatening the U.S.

The focus of DARPA is to prevent a cyber attack altogether, but Woolsey and Pry have also said that North Korea or Iran could also attack the grid via the atmosphere: By exploding a nuclear weapon over the east coast in an attack that would cause massive panic, instant civil unrest and result in the deaths of nine out of 10 people along the Atlantic Coast.

The DARPA plan reviewed by Defense Systems contains a number of ways the Pentagon cold react to any attack.

First off, the plan includes measures aimed at sensing an imminent attack that then triggers appropriate protective measures. If those are damaged, “it would have an alternative way for communications killed in the attack to continue in a backup system – key for the military and presumably the financial system,” the Washington Examiner reported. But that system isn’t going to be ready until at least 2020.

DARPA, in a statement, said it is pursuing a system capable of providing “early warning of impending attacks, situation awareness, network isolation and threat characterization in response to a widespread and persistent cyber-attack on the power grid and its dependent systems.”

Dubbed Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems, the program would be a major step forward in protecting and defending the U.S. power grid.

“The purpose for this program is to provide a technology that quickly isolates both the enterprise IT network and power infrastructure networks to disrupt malicious cyber attacks,” a BAE Systems official told Defense Systems.

When he was elected, President Donald J. Trump was said to have inherited a secret cyber war against North Korea, aimed at disrupting, in particular, missile launches. The New York Times reported last month that three years ago then-President Obama ordered the Pentagon to increase its cyber and electronic assaults against the North Korean missile program, with the aim of sabotaging the launches shortly after lift-off.

And while a large number of missile failures occurred in the months afterward, no one is completely sure that the Pentagon has been successful, or if several missiles failed simply because they were of poor quality or perhaps even sabotaged by disgruntled insiders.

The Times also noted that an investigation found that the Pentagon may be surprisingly ineffective at countering the North’s missile program – so much so that Obama warned Trump on his way out that it was the most urgent problem he would face.

As for the nation’s grid, a widespread loss of power would almost certainly take months – if not years – to repair, and lead to a multitude of other problems, not the least of which would be massive loss of life and societal chaos.

Follow more news about World War III at WWIII.news.

J.D. Heyes is a senior writer for NaturalNews.com and NewsTarget.com, as well as editor of The National Sentinel.





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Focus North Korea amps up worries about potential threat to the U.S. power grid

Photos show North Korean leader watching missile launch

North Korea's state media releases pictures appearing to show Kim Jong Un supervising four missiles being launched by an army unit commissioned with attacking U.S. military bases in Japan.
Rob NikolewskiRob NikolewskiContact Reporter

The scenario is apocalyptic: The United States plunges into darkness after its electrical grid goes down— not just for a few hours or even a few days, but a vulnerable power system could take 18 months to recover, so long a period of time that millions would die.

The reason? An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack come from a terrorist group or rogue state using a nuclear weapon detonated in the atmosphere.

It sounds like something out of the most dystopian of Hollywood disaster movies.

But news that North Korea recently launched four missiles that traveled 620 miles before landing in the Sea of Japan has heightened concerns among those who have warned that an EMP attack that could essentially vaporize the U.S. energy infrastructure.

“I think this is the principal, the most important and dangerous, threat to the United States,”said James Woolsey, former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1993 to 1995.

“If you look at the electric grid and what it’s susceptible to, we would be moving into a world with no food delivery, no water purification, no banking, no telecommunications, no medicine. All of these things depend on electricity in one way or another,” Woolsey said in an interview with the Union-Tribune.

Others acknowledge the grid needs to be bolstered but are not as fearful of a potential doomsday.

“I’m not on knife’s edge,” said Rob Manning, vice president of transmission for the reseach sector of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). “EMP is a real threat, as is any number of of things that we deal with on a daily basis. So all we can do is try to understand those threats greater and create ways to mitigate them or recover from them effectively.”

What exactly is an EMP?

A short burst of electromagnetic energy, an EMP can occur in nature but with the dawn of the Atomic Age, U.S. and Soviet military officials and scientists soon learned EMPs can also be created when they tested nuclear weapons in the atmosphere.

In 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the U.S. military exploded a nuclear weapon high above an atoll in the Pacific that unexpectedly resulted in an EMP that blew out street lights and knocked out telephones in Hawaii, some 900 miles away.

The abrupt surge of energy is not believed to harm humans physiologically but the pulse could create massive currents that would blow through power lines, destroying electrical transformers and damaging power plants.

While EMPs from outside sources have been popularized in films such as the 1995 James Bond movie “GoldenEye” and “The Matrix,” Mother Nature can deliver her own knockout blow.

In 1859, a powerful, geomagnetic storm known as the Carrington Event produced auroras around the world and caused telegraph systems in North America and Europe to fail.

Today the anxiety comes from an enemy initiating what’s called a “high-altitude EMP” by attaching a nuclear weapon onto a satellite, then detonating it as the satellite passes over the center of the U.S., inflicting the most possible damage.

North Korea already has two satellites that fly over the U.S. on a south-to-north trajectory.

“One of the myths out there is that you need a high-yield weapon to do an EMP attack,” said Peter Vincent Pry, chief of staff of the congressional EMP Commission who also served in the CIA. “Even a low-yield, primitive weapon like the bomb used in Hiroshima will produce a potentially catastrophic EMP field because it’s simply attacking things that are not hardened.”

The EMP Commission was appointed by Congress to assess the threat and in 2004 and 2008 issued reports urging a national commitment to protect everything from the mobile devices millions have become increasingly reliant upon to the power system itself from a potential EMP meltdown.

In its 2008 report, the EMP Commission estimated that within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, up to 90 percent of the population could die from starvation, disease and an overall breakdown of society.

Last month, EPRI released the first of a series of reports from a study looking at the impacts of a single, high-altitude electromagnetic pulse.

The study concentrated on the fleet of 37,000 bulk power transformers in the continental U.S.

Such large transformers, commonly seen in substations, are greater than 69,000 volts and convert electricity from high-voltage electricity to levels that are distributed around neighborhoods.

“We found that there would likely be some failures but those failures are relatively small in nature and not in the hundreds as had been contemplated from some of the reports in the past,” said EPRI’s Manning.

Manning added that “while I think this is good news,” he emphasized that at least four more reports will follow before the entire study is scheduled to wrap up in April 2019.

The EPRI research is funded by 50 utilities across the country, including two from California — Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric.

The EMP Commission’s Pry blasted the study, alleging that EPRI is compromised by having the study bankrolled by utility companies that he says have dragged their feet on bolstering the grid.

“It’s what I call the junk science EPRI study and you can quote me on that,” Pry said.

EPRI officials insist their study is unbiased.

“We are a fiercely independent organization,” Manning said. “That’s been our history over the last 40 years and that’s very much our mantra. And utilities know that. When they fund us they recognize the results may or may not be the results they would like to see but they will be the right, accurate results.”

Some have said alarm over EMP has been overstated, dismissing it as fear-mongering “for the tinfoil hat crowd” but Pry said in 2009 another congressional commission headed by former secretaries of defense William Perry and James Schlesinger came to the same conclusion as the EMP Commission.

The United Kingdom has also looked into potential risks of a nuclear-detonated EMP. “Our vulnerabilities are huge,” said the chairman of a committee report to Parliament in 2012.

So how much would it cost to harden the system?
Former CIA Director James Woolsey.
Former CIA Director James Woolsey. (James Crisp / AP)

The EMP Commission nine years ago estimated it would cost about $2 billion to protect the electric grid.

“I think that would be a bare beginning,” said Woolsey, who has co-authored a number of opinion pieces with Pry. “Most of the estimates I hear from people (to strengthen) the grid and the web as a whole is in the tens of billions.”

Scott Stewart, who supervises analysis of terrorism and security issues for the geopolitical consulting group Stratfor, said, “I honestly believe that our grid is vulnerable.”

But at the same time, Stewart said a cyberattack that could take down the grid is “far, far” more likely than a high-altitude EMP because a cyberattack would be easier for the perpetrators to hide their involvement.

“If you’re launching a weapon, it’s not difficult to track back who that was,” Stewart said. “There are ways you can even track back the nuclear material used to its originator. Basically, you’re going to leave your address, your fingerprints, if you conduct an attack using a weapon.”

Woolsey said he’s most concerned about North Korea because it already has nuclear weapons and “is ruled by a wild man (Kim Jong Un). And I'll be about equally concerned with Iran as soon as they get a nuclear weapon, which I think will not be too long from now.”

But Stewart said an EMP attack with a nuclear component would be interpreted by the U.S. as an act of war.

“Nuclear weapons give (Kim) a deterrent,” Stewart said. “A deterrent that you can draw a nuke on Seoul (South Korea) very easily is far more of a deterrent than an EMP strike against the United States. Nothing would take his government down quicker than an actual war against the U.S.”

Attacks on the grid can also come from more conventional sources.

Superstorm Sandy walloped the East Coast in 2012 resulted in 147 deaths, more than $50 billion in damages and knocked out power to 8 million people.

And in a violent incident that still has not been resolved, gunmen in 2013 took part in a military-style raid, outsmarting security cameras and sensors and damaging 17 transformers with high-powered weapons at a PG&E substation outside San Jose.

The leaking transformers were shut down by remote operators but more than $15 million worth of damages were reported. The FBI launched an investigation but the shooters have not been found.

“Nobody responsible, I think, says this is not a huge problem,” Woolsey said. “It’s somewhere between huge and catastrophic. We really need to do something to preserve the resilience of the electric grid.”

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3日前的新闻证明了美国早已注意金胖子要袭击美国的全国电网控制系统,来造成美国停电。而且已经进入防范警戒状态。只是根本就不是朝鲜的对手。败下阵来了,被袭击得手了。停电了!

https://www.sammyboy.com/showthread...Attacked-NY-LA-SF-power-blacked-out!-HUAT!-AH!

WW3 NOW: Kim Jong Nuke Cyber Attacked NY LA SF power blacked out! HUAT! AH!

Read these reports and check their dates, US knew Exactly that Kim Jong Nuke would attack recently but JUST FAILED TO STOP HIM!




http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-04-1...emp-burst.html


As war with North Korea approaches, Pentagon scrambling to protect U.S. power grid from cyber attacks, EMP burst

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 by: JD Heyes
Tags: cyber attack, EMP, Iran, North Korea, U.S. power grid
 

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USA still trying to deny their powergrid control had been hacked.

Can I go to houses of poorer Sinkies to steal cash cards at night? Huat Ah?!

it's all fake news, the angmoh fake this as a reason NK attacked them and now they have the prostitutional power to strike back.
 

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it's all fake news, the angmoh fake this as a reason NK attacked them and now they have the prostitutional power to strike back.

All hypocritical justifications for wars are unnecessary. As long as both parties are firmly set to their own decision to go to war, whole world must celebrate to that and congratulate planet earth for it.

Actually war itself only need one unilateral party to decide, weather the others like it or not, they can be properly deprived of any fucking choice. Especially those uninvolved unwilling and self-claimed to be INNOCENT, call them collateral damages and write them off! There is no innocence for any body that breath and consumes oxygen from planet earth. The more they think they are innocent the more they deserve to be killed and hurt by war. War rocks!

Ang Moh's concept of Innocence is pure crap, if lambs are innocence then Nasi Byrani disagree as well. :biggrin: So just eat it!
 
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