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2012
Power grid vulnerable to cyberattacks
"Power grid updates left system vulnerable to cyberattacks, auditors say"
"A rush by the Energy Department to use stimulus money to modernize the country's power grid has left the system vulnerable to cyberattacks, the agency's internal watchdog found.
"Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman found "shortcomings" in the cybersecurity plans of more than a third of the utility companies that got federal funding for "smart grid" projects -- from incomplete strategies to prevent an attack to vague steps for stopping one if it started.
"Without a formal risk assessment and associated mitigation strategy, threats and weaknesses may go unidentified and expose the . . . systems to an unacceptable level of risk," Friedman wrote in an audit released in January.
"Energy officials knew of these weaknesses but approved plans for the projects anyway, auditors said: "The initial weaknesses had not always been fully addressed, and did not include a number of security practices commonly recommended for federal government and industry systems. . . .
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