House Homeland Security chairman warns hackers will target U.S. power grid
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May 17, 2016
Richard Clarke — a national security expert for several presidential administrations and the nation’s first cyber security czar — warned that the country’s Internet-based, electronically controlled infrastructure was at risk.
He said then that both state and non-state actors had developed the capability to hack into U.S. government and private-sector systems and cause a level of destruction never before seen.
Now, years later — and after the U.S. government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on defending the country — experts are still warning that the nation’s cyber-connected infrastructure, and especially U.S. power grid, remains vulnerable.
As reported by the Washington Examiner, the House cybersecurity chairman warned recently that hackers for nation-states like Iran, North Korea, China and others could potentially launch attacks at power grid, Wall Street financial centers and the federal government’s various systems.
The Washington Examiner further reported:
Rep. Patrick Meehan, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, said the Sony attack and potential for a more widespread Internet invasion by U.S. enemies demands that President Obama sign pending cybersecurity legislation into law and look to other efforts to protect homegrown technology.
Power grids are especially vulnerable
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