BlackIoT Botnet: Can Water Heaters, Washers Bring Down the Power Grid?

We live in a world where washing machines text us when a load of laundry is finished and refrigerators can email grocery lists; but for all the convenience, it turns out that these high-wattage appliances can potentially be marshaled into something very inconvenient indeed: A wide-scale attack on...

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...