Soft Targets: Giant Lithium-ion Batteries Perfect For Enemy Hacker Attacks

The remote targeting and detonation of the pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah terrorists has shaken security experts around the globe. What else might be targeted, they muse? Well, obviously enough, distributed wind and solar power generation systems which are all connected to the Internet (in one way or another) provide pretty decent targets for … Continue reading Soft Targets: Giant Lithium-ion Batteries Perfect For Enemy Hacker Attacks

Hacked Off: CyberCrims Attack Rooftop Solar To Bring Down Entire Grid

Widely distributed micro power generation using rooftop solar, only increases the vulnerability of power grids. Cyber criminals (aka hackers) often test that kind of vulnerability, as a kind of sporting challenge. Malicious state actors are set up to do so as a prelude to war. Knockout a power grid and your (now powerless) enemy is … Continue reading Hacked Off: CyberCrims Attack Rooftop Solar To Bring Down Entire Grid

Hacked Off: Giant Texan Wind Farm Project Axed Due to CCP Spying & Grid Hacking Threat

Faced with the threat of Chinese Communist Party hackers infiltrating and wrecking its grid, Texan legislators have just scotched a giant wind farm project. CCP backed hackers messing around with an individual wind turbine is one thing, but bringing down an entire power grid is quite another. And that’s the very risk that ought to … Continue reading Hacked Off: Giant Texan Wind Farm Project Axed Due to CCP Spying & Grid Hacking Threat

Renewables Risk Watch: CCP Using Wind Farm Control Systems to Hack US Power Grid & More

With thousands of wind turbines spread far and wide, their control systems offer the perfect backdoor to hackers determined to disrupt and destroy power grids, and much more. The vulnerability of on-board networked control systems for wind turbines - known as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) - is glaringly obvious to those with an … Continue reading Renewables Risk Watch: CCP Using Wind Farm Control Systems to Hack US Power Grid & More