[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Admiral Mike McConnell, Former Chief of National
Intelligence says that the US are extremely dependent on the power
grid and that they are not prepared for cyber attacks that would
jeopardize it. He also believes that US’ enemies have the needed
capabilities to carry out a sophisticated attack on the nation’s
power grid and to achieve a cascading effect that would bring the
nation to a standstill.“…The incident that spurred the US government into action was
the theft of an enormous amount of information – terabytes,
actually – after the Department of Defense, the Department of
State, the Department of Commerce, and probably the Department of
Energy and NASA had been breached by a (still unknown) foreign
power.”