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12/30/2018 / By JD Heyes

U.S. cybersecurity experts scrambling to thwart major attacks on power, water, gas infrastructure by “bolting on” fixes to old vulnerable systems

Crammed into a small building in Idaho Falls, Idaho, a group of about 50 cyber security experts and researchers are working around the clock to protect American infrastructure from debilitating attacks. As The Associated Press reports, much of what goes on at the Idaho National Laboratory, once known as the country’s primary nuclear research facility, […]

12/27/2018 / By JD Heyes

Reports warn of disabling attacks to U.S. power grid that could wipe out “democracy” and the “world order”

A pair of reports released in the past month from two separate federal entities both warn of dire, devastating consequences from the destruction or disabling of a substantial portion of the U.S. power grid. In late November, the Pentagon released an eye-opening analysis of the effects of a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) stemming from the […]

10/13/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Are you prepared for an EMP attack? Nationwide chaos just one missile away

To be quite honest, every single American should be taking the threat of an EMP attack just as seriously as they take North Korea’s testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles or the Islamic State’s commitment to killing innocent Americans. Indeed, if a foreign nation or a rogue domestic terrorist were to launch an electromagnetic pulse attack […]

09/06/2017 / By JD Heyes

Prepper alert: North Korea’s latest nuke test may have advanced the country’s goal of creating grid-busting EMP weapon

There may be more to North Korea’s latest nuclear test than meets the eye if the country’s state-run media is to be believed, and it has huge implications for preppers. As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, an official North Korean newspaper published a column allegedly by one of the country’s scientists who claims that […]

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