Aurora Generator Test

Overview
In March 2007, researchers at Idaho National Laboratories (INL) conducted an experiment labeled the “Aurora Generator Test” to demonstrate the results of a simulated cyberattack on a power network. In a video released by the Department of Homeland Security, a power generator turbine, similar to many now in use throughout the United States, is forced to overheat and shut down dramatically, after receiving malicious commands from a hacker. The researchers at INL were investigating results of a possible cyberattack directed against a vulnerability that, reportedly, has since been fixed. The video, however, implied that other multiple power generators sharing similar cyber vulnerabilities could potentially be disabled the same way.

Source

 * Botnets, Cybercrime, and Cyberterrorism: Vulnerabilities and Policy Issues for Congress, at 20.