Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university's housing files when he stumbled into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the networks running the United States' power grid. By Garance Burke & Jonathan Fahey.
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Extreme weather poses increasing threat to US power grid
When Hurricane Katrina's punishing storm surge plowed ashore, it swamped seven of Coast Electric Power Association's substations, vital to powering thousands of Mississippi homes and businesses... By Holbrook Mohr and Garance Burke.
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