Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid (arstechnica.com)
from hellfire103@lemmy.ca to cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 2025 16:34
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jlh@lemmy.jlh.name on 23 Jan 2025 17:13 next collapse

Very serious vulnerability. These systems likely haven’t been revised since the 80s or 90s.

LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jan 2025 17:43 next collapse

I had seen the original talk and was shocked how little regulators seem to care. Especially in the post-stuxnet world, with a second cold war being in full swing.

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub on 24 Jan 2025 02:38 collapse

Unencrypted radio on a power grid??? What in the flip?! What wanker kept this going into the 2000s??

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 12:43 next collapse

The utility company motto. If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub on 24 Jan 2025 17:09 collapse

I don’t disagree. But it’s broken.

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 2025 18:27 collapse

Is it though? If messages are working over the link that would be their definition of working.

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub on 25 Jan 2025 04:56 collapse

The messages might be working right now, but the security (and, therefore, the stability and longevity) is broken.

syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de on 24 Jan 2025 13:08 collapse

I imagine the German response here is to be annoyed that they’ve worked very hard to be able to do this without telefax, indeed without paper at all, and it’s still not considered good enough by the peanut gallery.