Month: November 2011
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Shorter than a Starbucks Latte Order
We encountered a security video camera failure recently. Check your computer, this post really is being written in 2011. They parked me at an empty table with a test network and a sample of the failing device. Not knowing how to connect to it, a small bit of network investigation was in order. NMAP, the…
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..and the AMI gear is on the same switch as…
Nothing new but a decent summary of the state of cyber-security in the Energy space. No, it’s not just another replay of the “AMI is Hot this week, SCADA was Hot last week” NERC/CIP rant. Remember, for every substation with AMI head-end gear, there’s some ill-secured SCADA gear, debatably hiding behind it’s not-really-obscure RS-232 cabling.…