New DNI Stresses Threat to Power Grid from Cyberspace

By Sebastian Sprenger / February 13, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Dennis Blair, the newly sworn-in director of national intelligence, yesterday joined the ranks of experts arguing more energy should be spent on securing the nation's power grid against a potentially crippling cyber attack. While administration officials have made some progress in addressing threat, "there is a great deal more work that has to be done there," he told members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday. Experts have said the automated control systems running routine operations at crucial power-grid...

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