US senators ask NERC about efforts to protect grid from Russian, Chinese cyber attacks

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A pair of US senators on Wednesday asked the North American ElectricReliability Corporation what it was doing to protect the electricity gridfrom cybersecurity threats posed by Russia and China, noting the twocountries have the ability to take down a natural gas pipeline orelectrical distribution network.Senators Joe Manchin (Democrat-West Virginia) and Angus King(Independent-Maine) are particularly worried about components andsoftware made by Russia's Kaspersky and China's ZTE and Huawei,they told NERC CEO James Robb in a letter.