The new smart meters designed to help deliver electricity more efficiently are inviting – and vulnerable – targets for hackers, security analysts say. The Associated Press (News – Alert) reports that hackers can access the power grid “in previously impossible ways” from hacking the meters.
Last July, at the annual Black Hat security conference, IOActive’s (News – Alert) Mike Davis showed how he and his team “created a simulation in which over a period of 24 hours about 15,000 out of 22,000 homes had their smart meters taken over by a worm that could render the device under the control of the worm’s designers,” Earth2Tech reported.
via Smart Meters Vulnerable to Hack Attacks.
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