Utility companies and key oil and gas transportation hubs in Texas are on high alert as Russian hackers have been probing energy infrastructure’s digital networks for weak points.
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.
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