Two U.S. senators are calling for a federal investigation of the power grid's potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities after a CNET article last month raised security concerns.
The request for a probe comes from Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and Susan Collins (R-ME), the panel's senior Republican, who warned that lapses "could undermine part of the security system protecting our grid."
They sent a letter yesterday to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission asking for an "expeditious comprehensive investigation into these allegations," which deal with digital signatures the industry uses for authentication.
A FERC spokesman responded to a request for comment this afternoon by saying: "We don't comment publicly on letters from members of Congress. The commission will respond to the senators in due course."
Jesse Hurley, co-chair of the North American Energy Standards Board's Critical Infrastructure Committee, told CNET last month that the mechanism for creating digital signatures is insufficiently secure because not enough is being done to verify identities and some companies are attempting to weaken stan... [Read more]
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