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Submission + - Can the Smart Grid be secured? (scientificamerican.com)

Submitted by SHP on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @11:24AM

SHP writes: An article by Melissa Hathaway in the October issue of Scientific American describes the risks associated with the planned "Smart Grid". She goes as far as saying, "As currently envisaged, however, it’s a dangerously dumb idea." The Department of Energy recently threw some money at the issue, http://www.energy.gov/news/9539.htm. One of the projects aims to create a "National Electric Sector Security Organization" which will "be a broad-based, public-private partnership that will work to improve electric sector computer and network cybersecurity, including those used in the smart grid."

Comment A first (Score 0, Flamebait) 149

by SHP on Friday February 27, 2009 @06:32PM (#27017941) Attached to: Florida Lab Gets Pregnant

An intelligently designed biological system capable of evolution.

Gee, that's never been done before.

Submission + - DHS listserve faux paus creates "SPAM" sto (sans.org)

Submitted by SHP on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @12:24PM

SHP writes: As noted by the Internet Storm Center, a misconfiguration of a DHS listserve has allowed email to be sent to the list by unauthorized parties. The ensuing storm of reply emails has been keeping thousands of security professionals amused and distracted all morning. One enterprising individual has created a message board for those wishing to take the conversation offline.

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