Electric Smart Meter Botnet

Searching_ _ _ · Apr 5, 2010

Davis and company procured some smart meters from eBay and proceeded to reverse the software and discover a number of vanilla software security problems and vulnerabilities. Building on a buffer overflow attack, Davis created a rootkit and a worm to propagate the rootkit between meters, revealing a scenario in which a botnet of compromised meters could be created.
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What all this technical risk really means in the end is not pretty. If you can root a smart meter through a buffer overflow exploit and built a botnet of compromised meters, the power grid itself is in trouble. Given the ability to turn compromised meters on and off all at once through a botnet controller, even a simple attack involving 50,000 meters could cause a 30 megawatt stability problem. That is the kind of problem that can bring the entire system down in a cascading failure. This is completely unsettling. And it's real.
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