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Cybersecurity in utilities: Critical questions for securing distributed energy resources (DERs)

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Mon, 06/17/2019 - 05:09. For example, a 2016 power cut in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev has been linked to a hack and blackout in 2015 that affected 225,000 households. The Mirai IoT botnet incident crippled many major websites, demonstrating the damage that can occur due to insecure IoT devices. Add new comment.

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Technical debt: public sector at the forefront

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Wed, 06/08/2016 - 02:48. of government and local authorities consists of useless components (e.g., This higher technical debt in the public sector is due to the fact that government IT systems were some of the first to be built and cover a huge range of applications, functionality, services and inter-application exchanges.