A new Associated Press investigation published today offers an eye-opening reminder of just how susceptible America’s power grid is to a little something called malicious infiltration.
In the report, we meet Brian Wallace, a researcher at Cylance cybersecurity, and learn how he uncovered — somewhat by chance — an in-progress Iranian hacking operation. The information these hackers have access to enables them to literallyfight the power — they could cut off the electricity on which millions of homes run.
Yet, here in the United States., we have not seen such an attack. We have seen harbingers of such a threat for years, including that book written by Ted Koppel— but the electricity keeps flowing. It may be that these hackers are biding their time, amassing more material so as to create a more devastating attack, or it may be that they have the information but not the particular and considerable expertise that a full-scale attack would require. For the full article click here
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