by march of last year, the threat and the warnings from the u.s. government were getting more specific, both in terms of the potential damage that could be caused by these type of cyber attacks and the specificity with which the u.s. government was identifying the perpetrators. "cyber attacks put russian fingers on the switch at power plants, u.s. says." that was the headline, march 15th last year in "the new york times." "the administration accused russia this week of engineering a series of cyber attacks that targeted u.s. and european nuclear power plants and water and electric systems, and could have sabotaged or shut power plants off at will." that was march of last year. within a few months, by last summer, july of last year, the threats and the description of the intrauusions were getting me and more concrete. this is from "the wall street journal." "russian hackers reach u.s. utility control rooms, say u.s.