Hackers Have Reportedly Infiltrated The US Power Grids

By Waqas The IT Security firm Symantec revealed on Wednesday that hackers This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Have Reportedly Infiltrated The US Power Grids...

Critical Flaws Found in Solar Panels Could Shut Down Power Grids

A Dutch security researcher has uncovered a slew of security vulnerabilities in an essential component of solar panels which could be exploited to cause widespread outages in European power grids. Willem Westerhof, a cybersecurity researcher at Dutch security firm ITsec, discovered 21 security...

Dangerous Malware Discovered that Can Take Down Electric Power Grids

Last December, a cyber attack on Ukrainian Electric power grid caused the power outage in the northern part of Kiev — the country's capital — and surrounding areas, causing a blackout for tens of thousands of citizens for an hour and fifteen minutes around midnight. Now, security researchers have...

Dewan Chowdhury on Hacking Power Grids

Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks with Dewan Chowdhury, the founder and CEO of MalCrawler, about hacking power grids and a honeypot they built to mimic an energy management system...

Cesar Cerrudo on Securing Smart Cities

IOActive Labs CTO Cesar Cerrudo talks to Ryan Naraine about major realistic security problems affecting technology implementations of smart cities — from traffic control systems to surveillance cameras and power grids — and warns that the damages from live attacks could be catastrophic. Download:...

Sensitive Army database of U.S. dams compromised by Chinese Hackers

U.S. intelligence agencies traced a recent cyber intrusion into U.S. Army database that holds sensitive information about vulnerabilities in U.S. dams. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams contains information about 79,000 dams throughout the country and tracks such...

2011 will be Stuxnet-like viruses year !

Known to successfully slow down the Iranian nuclear program, the Stuxnet cyber worm is now expected to spawn variations that are predicted to disrupt non-traditional IT targets, from power grids to electronic voting stations. The Stuxnet cyber worm is a very complex, efficient and stealthy string...