Attackers could cause a cascade of failures in the US west-coast electricity grid (Image: Dan Tuffs / Rex)
PREDICTING how rumours and epidemics percolate through populations, or how traffic jams spread through city streets, are network analyst Jian-Wei Wang’s bread and butter. But his latest findings are likely to spark worries in the US: he’s worked out how attackers could cause a cascade of network failures in the US’s west-coast electricity grid – cutting power to economic powerhouses Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
Wang and colleagues at Dalian University of Technology in the Chinese province of Liaoning modelled the US’s west-coast grid…
