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Electricity grid cybersecurity will be expensive – who will pay, and how much?

  • Written by Dominic Saebeler, Adjunct Instructor of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Springfield
In a power outage, some lights are on, but others are not.Felix Lipov/Shutterstock.com

Recently, a neighbor asked one of us whether Russia, China, North Korea and Iran really are capable of hacking into the computers that control the U.S. electricity grid. The answer, based on available evidence, is “Yes.” The follow-up question was,...

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