Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order approving NERC’s proposed Reliability Standards (EOP-011-3 and EOP-012-1)
FERC approved two new extreme cold weather reliability standards aimed at implementing key recommendations from the joint inquiry into 2021’s Winter Storm...
Researchers Warn of Critical Security Bugs in Schneider Electric Modicon PLCs
Security researchers have disclosed two new vulnerabilities affecting Schneider Electric Modicon programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that could allow for...
MS-ISAC Advisory: A vulnerability has been discovered in Clam AntiVirus
A vulnerability has been discovered in Clam AntiVirus that could allow for remote code execution. Clam AntiVirus is an open-source, cross-platform, anti...
Critical infrastructure at risk from new vulnerabilities found in wireless IIoT devices
Israeli industrial cybersecurity company Otorio reported a set of 38 security vulnerabilities in wireless industrial internet of things (IIoT) devices from...
MISO Summer Readiness Workshop Scheduled
During this information sharing opportunity to be conducted on May 18, 2023, between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. (Central), MISO will discuss its generation and...
AESO has published the minutes from Final Energy Storage ISO Rule Amendments Stakeholder Session
Attached are the draft minutes from the February 2, 2023, AESO Stakeholder Consultation Session on Final Energy Storage ISO Rule Amendments. The finalized...
Texas RE Engagement Questions Resource
Texas RE has provided a listing of "Engagement" questions that provide an excellent resource to registered entities to gauge their compliance posture...
NIST Risk Management Framework Aims to Improve Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework...
Experts Warn of ‘Beep’ – A New Evasive Malware That Can Fly Under the Radar
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new piece of evasive malware dubbed Beep that is designed to fly under the radar and drop additional payloads onto...
Adobe has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities
alicious actors have published more than 451 unique Python packages on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) repository in an attempt to infect developer...
NERC President and CEO, briefed the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission on Physical Security
On February 15, 2023, NERC president and CEO, James Robb, briefed the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission on the physical security of the...
Request For Approval Of The Inverter Based Resources Work Plan And Request For Expedited Review
NERC has proposed a work plan and request for expedited review to address a gap in the application of Electric Reliability Standards. The Federal Energy...
Adobe has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities
Adobe has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe software. An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of...
Finding and fixing trouble spots in your Incident Response Program
Reliability First (RF) provides in their "Knowledge Center" CIP reference materials, resources, and discussions on topics of CIP compliance, physical secur...
ISO-NE Provides a Valuable Compliance Resource: “Corroborating Evidence Interpretations and Compliance Guidance (CEICG)”
The ISO’s Reliability and Operations Compliance (ROC) group provides guidance to New England transmission owners and market participants by working with the...
MS-ISAC Advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution
Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending...
MS-ISAC Advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. Successful exploitation...
Revised CIP Evidence Request Tool
NERC recently posted a revised ERO Enterprise CIP Evidence Request Tool (ERT). The purpose of the CIP ERT is to help the ERO Enterprise with consistency and...
Release of Three New Reliability Standard Audit Worksheets (RSAWs) for Cold Weather Standards
Three new Reliability Standard Audit Worksheets (RSAWs) have been posted to the RSAW homepage under the heading "Current RSAWs for Use’ for EOP-011-2, IRO...
MS-ISAC Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apple Products Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution
Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending...
Texas RE to Host Webinar Regarding Align Releases 4.0 and 4.5
On February 23, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. (Central), Texas RE will host a webinar for Align Releases 4 and 4.5. This virtual-only training session is open to any...