21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: The Age of Hacker-Caused Blackouts Is Upon Us: A malware attack left thousands of homes without power in Ukraine and this is only the beginning. “According to security researchers for iSIGHT Partners, the malware led to ‘destructive events’ that in turn caused the blackout. Details beyond that are a little unclear, but it sounds vaguely like Stuxnet, the cyberweapon used to destroy Iranian nuclear enrichment plans by making centrifuges go berserk. Meanwhile, researchers from antivirus provider ESET, a malware package that infected the affected power plants (but may not necessarily be the one responsible for the disruption) got in by way of macro functions built into Microsoft Word documents. This kind of attack has been a fear for years now, and a very credible one at that.”

Well, be prepared. I’ve got a generator.