Saturday, April 11, 2009

US Electricity Grid Mapped by Spies

From the Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2009.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123914805204099085.html

Foreign cyber intrusions into US systems has been going on for a while but the big reveals in 2008 were that these intrusions increased, that Chinese and Russian sources attempted to map the US electrical grid, and these intruders left malicious software that when activated could disrupt electrical systems. When could these programs be activated? Well, according to intelligence officials...during a war.

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