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I've learned how critical cyber security is for many things to function properly. As everything that we do moves towards technology, the security has become more and more important. Unfortunately, a lot of the times it depends on the person on how secure they are [1].

There are several ways of protecting yourself from potential cyber attacks [2].

  1. Running an anti-virus scan every so often.
  2. Installing software updates
  3. Not sharing personal IDs via email or any other unsecure method
  4. Preventing adware/spyware. Usage of adblocker is a good way of making sure you won't install something sketchy.
  5. Protecting passwords, ideally with high grade encryption that only you can can decrypt.
  6. Backing up important files.

Here is a figure for general operation flow for cybersafety prevention

Source: IEEE xplore


The integration of computers into the power grids have made them vulnerable to cyber attacks. The implications of power grids being hacked are huge as it also affects the economy. One of the biggest cyber attacks on a power grid was on western Ukrainian power grid in December 2015 which affected 225,000 households [3].


References

  1. A. Tonge, S. Kasture and S. Chaudhari, "Cyber security: challenges for society-literature review", IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering, vol. 2, no. 12, pp. 67-75, 2013.
  2. H. Sun, Y. Chen and Y. Linopass, "A user authentication protocol resistant to password stealing and password reuse attacks", IEEE Trans. on Info. Forensics and Security, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 651-663, 2012.

  3. Macola, I.G. (2022) The five worst cyberattacks against the power industry since 2014, Power Technology. Available at: https://www.power-technology.com/features/the-five-worst-cyberattacks-against-the-power-industry-since2014/?cf-view (Accessed: 06 November 2023).

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