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DOE, DHS Planning New Grid Cybersecurity Exercise This Fall – United States
News of the DOE’s new grid exercise comes amid heightened tensions in Washington over grid security and the federal government’s proposed policies to strengthen it. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security warned in a public web presentation that Russian-backed hackers had gained the ability to “throw switches” on the power grid in attacks that claimed “hundreds” of victims. The announcement caused some alarm among sector experts, who said hackers do not have the ability to cause widespread outages today. DHS quickly walked it back, telling Utility Dive last week there was “some context that was lacking” in its webinar. The cyber concerns garnered extra attention in the sector because the White House has used them as justification for its plans to save uneconomic coal and nuclear plants from retirement. A leaked administration memo this spring raised concerns that gas pipelines could be more susceptible to pipeline attacks a theory officials said they would test with the new exercise.
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Airlines Cutting Routes To Resorts Amid Cartel Violence – Mexico and The United States
Many of the top U.S. airline companies are cutting their number of flights to Mexican beach resorts following reports of cartel violence and increasing passenger fears. Reports of violence in Mexican beach resorts like Cancun and Playa del Carmen reduced the demand for airline seats. As a result, many carriers are announcing a reduction in the number of scheduled flights to the resorts. Some travelers reported being robbed after blacking out when they had only had one drink, the Dallas newspaper stated, citing a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation. In May alone, 50 people were murdered in the once peaceful resort of Cancun, Breitbart Texas’ Robert Arce reported. At that time, more than 200 people were killed at the popular beach town. In mid-April, two cartel gunmen opened fire on the beach area from jet skis. A few days earlier, nine people were murdered in a 24-hour period.
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Linux Vulnerability Could Lead To DDoS Attacks – Worldwide
A Linux kernel vulnerability affecting version 4.9 and up could allow an attacker to carry out denial-of-service attacks on a system with an available open port, according to an Aug 6 security advisory from the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. “Linux kernel versions 4.9+ can be forced to make very expensive calls to tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() for every incoming packet which can lead to a denial of service,” the report states. “An attacker can induce a denial of service condition by sending specially modified packets within ongoing TCP sessions.” Malicious actors could maintain the attack by using a continuous two-way TCP session to a reachable open port. Researchers noted that because of this, the attacks can’t be performed using spoofed IP addresses. Patches for the vulnerability have been released, and users are recommended to update their systems as soon as possible.
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