Electricity grids left wide open to hackers


Electricity grids left wide open to hackers -- Duncan Graham-Rowe  -- New Republic  -- August 27, 2003
Hackers

The revelation that a computer worm disabled a safety system in a US nuclear power station in January has led to fresh calls for security on electricity grids to be overhauled. Experts say much of the grid's critical infrastructure is too accessible to the virus-ridden public internet.

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