Blake is the deputy editor for Energywire and author of E&E News' weekly Cybersecurity Update. Since joining E&E in 2013, he has written about crude-by-rail safety risks and investigated major cyberattacks on oil, gas and electricity companies worldwide. Blake graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a double major in journalism and Arabic and has previously reported for the Associated Press in Jerusalem.
The Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow to examine a sweeping hack that hit the Department of Energy, the Treasury Department and at least seven other federal agencies.
The Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow to examine a sweeping hack that hit the Department of Energy, the Treasury Department and at least seven other federal agencies.
The Department of Energy's nuclear weapons office and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are the latest agencies swept up in a staggering hack of global computer networks.
A far-reaching hack of U.S. federal agencies and global companies may have breached electric power utilities, at least two Energy Department national labs and thousands of other organizations, experts said yesterday.