Anonymous, NSA Square Off On Power Grid Attacks

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/232601362

Anonymous calls claim that it might target U.S. power grid 'ridiculous;' security expert says power grid security can already be hacked.

The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander, has cautioned that within a couple of years, hacktivist collectives such as Anonymous could pose a threat to power grids. His warnings have been made in private White House briefings, reported the Wall Street Journal.

But the Anonops blog, a reliable source of Anonymous-related information, Tuesday disputed that the group had any inclination to crash power grids. "Ridiculous! Why should Anonymous shut off power grid? Makes no sense! They just want to make you feel afraid," read a post to the blog.

Indeed, attacking power grids wouldn't seem to square with the group's modus operandi. To date, Anonymous has focused on sowing the seeds of anarchic online mayhem largely by doxing--releasing sensitive documents--and launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.