From the Leaks Out and Cracks In dept.:
The White House is proposing a big increase in cybersecurity research and development in next year's budget to improve, in part, its ability to reduce the risk of insider threats and ensure the safety of control systems such as those used at power plants.

...Philip Coyle, associate director for national security, said at the budget briefing on Monday that the administration is proposing "considerable growth" in cybersecurity research. When all the cybersecurity spending plans across the board are added together, cybersecurity research and development spending will increase 35% to $548 million next year, he said.

Stuxnet illustrated how a cyberattack could corrupt a specifically targeted critical control system -- in this case, Iran's nuclear centrifuges. But attacks on critical facilities in the U.S. have been a longstanding concern.