Hackers and the US Power grid

[Andre Kesteloot]

The National Security Agency says computer hackers are ramping up 
efforts to take down the U.S. power grid, with a 17-fold increase on 
attacks to the nation's critical infrastructure in the last two years.

"They're growing from disruptive to destructive and our country has the 
bulk of this network," Gen. Keith Alexander, the NSA chief, told the 
Aspen Security Forum in August. "We're the most vulnerable and we need 
to do something about it." [Read more: Meyer/WKYC 
<http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/267320/45/Investigator-Cyber-attack-bigger-threat-than-Sandy>/31October2012] 

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