April 17, 2014
A year after gunfire knocked out a substation that funnels power to Silicon Valley, the U.S. government has promised to make power companies amp up protection of equipment vital to the electric grid. Read full article at the WSJ
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Assault on California Power Station Raises Alarm on Potential for Terrorism
February 5, 2014
SAN JOSE, Calif.—The attack began just before 1 a.m. on April 16 last year, when someone slipped into an underground vault not far from a busy freeway and cut telephone cables.
Within half an hour, snipers opened fire on a nearby electrical substation. Shooting for 19 minutes, they surgically knocked out 17 giant transformers that funnel power to Silicon Valley. A minute before a police car arrived, the shooters disappeared into the night. Read the original WSJ article about the susceptibility of the US power grid and how a critical vulnerability of being ignored.
