{"id":26905,"date":"2011-06-01T23:49:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T06:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=26905"},"modified":"2011-06-16T20:48:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T03:48:45","slug":"cyber-attack-on-u-s-electric-grid-gravest-short-term-threat-to-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/cyber-attack-on-u-s-electric-grid-gravest-short-term-threat-to-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Attack on U.S. Electric Grid Gravest Short Term Threat to National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is ill-prepared to deal with a cyber attack on the nation\u2019s electric grid, one of the biggest national security threats facing the country today, lawmakers warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sobering reality is this vulnerability, if left unaddressed, could have grave, societal-altering consequences,\u201d Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee today. \u201cWe face a menace that may represent the gravest short term threat to the peace and security of the human family in the world today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Experiments by federal agencies in recent years have shown that cyber spies have intruded the U.S. electric system, and that it&#8217;s increasingly susceptible to attacks by hackers and foreign governments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2011\/05\/cyber-attack-on-us-electric-grid-gravest-short-term-threat-to-national-security-lawmakers-say.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=c9fe3e25-48c7-4617-ab49-5c5d63c45228\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is ill-prepared to deal with a cyber attack on the nation\u2019s electric grid, one of the biggest national security threats facing the country today, lawmakers warned. \u201cThe sobering reality is this vulnerability, if left unaddressed, could have grave, societal-altering consequences,\u201d Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[700],"tags":[2526,5599,31,27,30,1015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27061,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905\/revisions\/27061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}