Johns Hopkins University computer scientists have led an effort to create a proven way to prevent sabotage from disrupting the electronic networks that support major infrastructure such as power grids ...

Its Web Services Network, which is itself a Web service, works on the hub-and-spoke principle. Grand Central’s hub is both a service registry and a message switch.

"Americans have particular reason to worry," Anton Dahbura, an expert in information security, computer science, cyber warfare at Johns Hopkins University, writes in an email to the Hub. After heavy ...