It's notable that this report is completely consistent so far with the way I would design a cyber attack to take out a countries power grid.
> The causes provided by RWE for the initiation of the trip of Little Barford steam turbine (ST1C) was due to discrepancies on three independent safety critical speed measurement signals to the generator control system.
A cyber attack would most likely, rather than directly take capacity offline, instead make the system less stable by attempting to make safety systems not work properly. That has the benefit that the attack will be triggered at th exact same time as another incident, increasing the impact.
Injecting false values for a sensor reading is a very good way to hide your tracks as an attacker - just inject a bunch of "0" values, and then uninstall whatever malware did it, and probably nobody will ever find out why that sensor randomly acted up.
> The causes provided by RWE for the initiation of the trip of Little Barford steam turbine (ST1C) was due to discrepancies on three independent safety critical speed measurement signals to the generator control system.
A cyber attack would most likely, rather than directly take capacity offline, instead make the system less stable by attempting to make safety systems not work properly. That has the benefit that the attack will be triggered at th exact same time as another incident, increasing the impact.
Injecting false values for a sensor reading is a very good way to hide your tracks as an attacker - just inject a bunch of "0" values, and then uninstall whatever malware did it, and probably nobody will ever find out why that sensor randomly acted up.