12 Jun 2009
Buggy 'smart meters' open door to power-grid botnet

Joy. We got one of those installed here a few weeks ago - it has cut our bill substantially, but I suspect that's only because we were being grossly overbilled in the first place.

New electricity meters being rolled out to millions of homes and businesses are riddled with security bugs that could bring down the power grid, according to a security researcher who plans to demonstrate several attacks at a security conference next month.

(link) [The Register]

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