Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Lockheed: Once we have a smart grid, I could switch it from China

"The sheer volume of interactive devices on two-way networks is the biggest risk. By the end of 2015 we will have 440 million new hackable points on the grid. Nobody’s equipped to deal with that today."

Chinese Grad Student Describes Cascade-based Attack on America's Power Grid
Chinese researchers at the Institute of Systems Engineering of Dalian University of Technology published a paper on how to attack a small U.S. power grid sub-network in a way that would cause a cascading failure of the entire U.S.

BAD HARDWARE: If not prevented in time, damages might be much bigger than after 9/11 attacks.

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