[ga] Is the SSAC on top of this?: Smart Grid Computers Susceptible To Worm Attack

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Is ICANN on top of this?  My guess is no, not yet.  But that's
just a guess.  Is DOC/NTIA?  I am very sure the answer is
no.  This is serious stuff.  Thankfully we are on top of this,
and have a tested solution which seems some power companies
are wanting us to demonstrate or implement ASAP.

See:
 http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/03/22/082236

Researchers with security consultancy IOActive have created a
http://www.itworld.com/security/64770/power-grid-found-susceptible-cyberattack
worm that could quickly spread among Smart Grid devices,
small computers connected to the power grid that give customers and
power
companies better control over the electricity they use. '[The worm]
spread from one meter to another and then it changed the text in the LCD

screen to say "pwned,"' said Travis Goodspeed, an independent security
consultant who worked with the IOActive team. In the hands of a
malicious
hacker, this code could be used to cut power to Smart Grid devices that
use a feature called 'remote disconnect,' which allows power companies
to
cut a customer's power via the network. The robustness of US power
networks has been a hot-button issue after a technical glitch in 2003
caused a cascading power failure in the eastern United States and Canada

that affected 55 million people.

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