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  President Obama expressed concern Monday that the United States is locked in a cyber arms race with Russia and other countries that could quickly escalate into war. Speaking to reporters at the G-20 conference in Hangzhou, China, Obama admitted ...

WASHINGTON — The threat of what the White House calls a “significant cyber incident” against the power grid is so great that the Obama administration has unveiled a major new strategy, complete with a six-level schema that acknowledges the most ...

The US Department of Homeland Security is preparing for a potentially catastrophic attack on the nation’s electric power gird and is setting up up a “cybersecurity committee” to coordinate efforts to protect power plants and the grid from a digital ...

A terror attack on the power grid would firmly and quickly sink the United States into complete chaos, and it could come via cyber attack, says former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, who believes the nation is “vulnerable.” Cohen was ...

China and probably “one or two” other countries have the capacity to use a cyber attack and shut down the entire United States power grid, a catastrophe that could lead to significant loss of life, NSA Director Michael Rogers told ...

Terrorists and other bad guys could easily seize control of aircraft and disrupt their operations via hacking, a leading security researcher has discovered. Ruben Santamarta of security firm IOActive discovered that the SATCOM (satellite communications) devices which planes use to ...

The vulnerability of the US power grid is finally being heralded as a pressing domestic security concern within the federal government, but it took the owner of a private technology firm to wake up officials. Tech expert Adam Crain once ...

The power grid is perhaps the most vulnerable aspect of infrastructure in the United States, and a new federal report states that if just nine of the 55,000 substations failed or were sabotaged, the entire nation would suffer a blackout ...

Two major attacks on the power grid last year that went largely unreported by the mainstream media are just now gaining more attention. One took place in California and the other in Tennessee, and either one – if successful – ...

China may be waging an invisible war on the United States power grid. A previous news report about cyber warfare threats on the grid appears to coin with a more recent order for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to prepare ...