How Vulnerable Is The U.S. Power Grid To A Terrorist Attack?

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How This Urban Explorer Gets Into Restricted Areas http://bit.ly/1WJSLHS Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml U.S. infrastructure is in dire need of a makeover, making it very susceptible to hacking. So how hard is it to hack the U.S. power grid? Learn More: AP Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c8d531ec05e0403a90e9d3ec0b8f83c2/ap-investigation-us-power-grid-vulnerable-foreign-hacks "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." 2013 Report Card for American Infrastructure http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/a/#p/energy/overview "America relies on an aging electrical grid and pipeline distribution systems, some of which originated in the 1880s." Preventing Blackouts: Building a Smarter Power Grid http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/preventing-blackouts-power-grid/ "August 14, 2003, was a typical warm day in the Midwest. But shortly after 2:00 P.M. several power lines in northern Ohio, sagging under the high current they were carrying, brushed against some overgrown trees and shut down." Music Track Courtesy of APM Music: "Human Connection" Subscribe to TestTube News! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml _________________________ TestTube News is committed to answering the smart, inquisitive questions we have about life, society, politics and anything else happening in the news. It's a place where curiosity rules and together we'll get a clearer understanding of this crazy world we live in. Watch more TestTube: http://testtube.com/testtubenews TestTube now has a newsletter! Get a weekly round-up of our most popular videos across all the shows we make here at TestTube. For more info and to sign-up, click here. http://testtube.com/fwd Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=testtubenetwork TestTube on Twitter https://twitter.com/TestTube Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/TraceDominguez TestTube on Facebook https://facebook.com/testtubenetwork TestTube on Google+ http://gplus.to/TestTube Download the New TestTube iOS app! http://testu.be/1ndmmMq Special thanks to Laura Ling for hosting TestTube! Check Laura out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lauraling