Tierney named CFO of American Electric Power
COLUMBUS, OHIO - American Electric Power (AEP) has named Brian X. Tierney executive vice president and chief financial officer. He replaces Holly Koeppel, who served as AEP's CFO since September 2006.
Koeppel will continue with AEP as an executive vice president through the fourth quarter for financial reporting continuity and to assist Tierney during the transition.
Tierney previously served as executive vice president of the firm's AEP Utilities East division, responsible for the distribution, customer service, and financial performance of AEP's utility operating companies in the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Venita McCellon-Allen will replace Tierney as executive vice president of AEP Utilities East. She previously served as executive vice president of AEP Utilities West, responsible for distribution and customer service operations in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power is an electric utility serving more than five million customers in 11 states.
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NEW YORK - A hacker collective known for attacking industrial companies around the world have had some of their infrastructure identified by Russian security specialists.
Kaspersky Lab said that it has discovered a number of servers compromised by the group, belonging to different organisations based in Russia, the US, and Turkey, as well as European countries.
The Russian-speaking hackers, known as Crouching Yeti or Energetic Bear, mostly focus on energy facilities, for the main purpose of stealing valuable data from victim systems.
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Crouching Yeti is described as an advanced persistent threat (APT) group that Kaspersky Lab has been tracking since 2010.
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