The Pentagon Has Its Own Island Off New York To Stage Cyber Attacks

Plum Island, off the coast of Long Island, serves as a testing ground for DARPA's staged cyber attack exercises. DARPA

Business Insider: The Pentagon has its own island off New York where nobody can go that it's using to run war games for a giant cyber attack on power grid

* Every six months, DARPA stages mock cyber attacks a highly restricted island off the coast of New York.
* Specialists war game a major cyber attack of the power grid on Plum Island, which people need US government clearance to set foot on.
* The exercise involves figuring out how to jumpstart a large electricity system if it gets suddenly taken offline by enemy hackers.
* A DARPA official sent Business Insider photos of the site during one of the drills.

Only a few have gone through the extensive background checks needed to access Plum Island — where a secretive branch of the US government runs exercises to prepare for all-out cyber war.

The speck of land in the Long Island Sound, owned by the Department of Homeland Security is largely deserted. The main attractions are a defunct lighthouse and a center that studies infectious animal diseases.

It is also the perfect setting for the US government to stage mock cyber attacks on the power grid.

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