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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. I moved here at the end of 2014. Hash: So I moved.

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NYT Report: U.S. Cyber units planted destructive Malware in Russian Power Grid

Security Affairs

.” In July 2018, the US Department of Homeland Security declared that Russia’s APT groups have already penetrated America’s critical infrastructure, especially power utilities, and continue to target them. “The question now is whether placing the equivalent of land mines in a foreign power network is the right way to deter Russia.