Electric grid, emergency communications vulnerable to electromagnetic weapons

Wednesday, February 3 12:43 pm

Gale Nordling, president and CEO of Emprimus, recently testified before the Congressional Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, Science and Technology about how electromagnetic devices can be used against public infrastructure, specifically the electric grid. Such devices can disable systems controlled by computers and significantly disrupt emergency–response operations from fire protection to homeland security, Nordling said.

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