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No one can say we weren’t warned about energy insecurities. In 1998, President Clinton signed a Presidential Directive that established a national program for critical infrastructure protection.  This directive stated that the energy sector of the United States was potentially vulnerable to cyber attack and that the United States would take all necessary measures to swiftly eliminate any significant cybervulnerabilities within this sector.

via Getting Ahead of Ourselves with Smart Energy | Security Management.

Unknown hackers have taken out US cellphone networks in an ongoing cyber-attack that will soon knock out parts of the nation’s electricity grid – say the officials who helped plan today’s mock assault on the nation’s defences.

The 3-hour event began at 10 am EST (3 pm GMT) and will quickly escalate from cellphone networks to attack the US power supply by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in smart grid technologies, says Matthew Stern, head of cyber accounts for defence contractor General Dynamics.

via US networks and power grid under (mock) cyber-attack – tech – 16 February 2010 – New Scientist.