[pchelpers] News:US electricity grid hit by cyber attacks

>From correspondents in Washington
April 09, 2009 02:00am

CHINESE and Russian cyber-spies have hacked into the US electricity grid
and inserted programs that could be used to disrupt the system, a report
says.

Quoting unidentified intelligence sources and homeland security
officials, the Wall Street Journal said cyber-spies penetrated the
system repeatedly last year, without disrupting it. 

"The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the
electrical grid,'' the paper said quoting a senior intelligence
official, and "so have the Russians''. 

Officials fear bugs have been sown in the system and could be used to
disrupt the vital networks at a time of war or crisis. 

More here:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25312360-5012762,00.html
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