U.S. Power Grid: Ripe for Cyber-Attacks

U.S. Power Grid: Ripe for Cyber-Attacks - TheStreet: "NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Power cut to businesses and hospitals. The inability to heat homes in winter or cool them in summer. Debilitating blackouts. Signs of Armageddon? Maybe. But they're also the potential results of a incapacitating cyber-attack on the nation's power grids, an act that experts say could happen at any time.

'The U.S. government and the American people should be more concerned about this,' Rep. Jim Langevin (D., R.I), co-chair of the congressional cyber-security caucus, told TheStreet. 'I don't feel that the electric grid is nearly as secure as it needs to be.'"