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Vladimir Bezmaly | 03/15/2021
- Johann, did you hear what happened to our neighbors?

- Your Majesty, is this when an entire province was left without power?

- Exactly! They say it happened because of a hacker attack on the power plant equipment.

— More likely because of the stupidity of the IT staff. The company management decided to provide the dispatchers with a cool coffee maker. But it refused to work without the Internet. And they connected it, but, as it turned out, they also connected the computers in the control room. Well, and then someone hacked the coffee maker and gave them a "dark". The whole province went dark. It took a week to restore it.

— I am instructing your department to find out whether a similar scenario is possible for us. Not with a coffee machine, but with a mass power outage. And what we can actually do to counter this.

- Yes, your majesty! I will set the task for my research unit today.


- Johann, what surprises will you bring?

— Quite the opposite. Yes, our power plants are oman mobile database from attacks via the Internet quite reliably. They are simply not connected! But a mass shutdown can be arranged using water heaters. Yes, yes. Naturally, these water heaters must be “smart”. But there are more and more of them. People do not have enough simple water heaters and devices, everyone wants “smart” ones. It’s a pity that “smart” devices do not come with smart owners.

— Are we only threatened by “smart” water heaters?

— Of course not! Smart water heaters, smart air conditioners, smart heating systems. These targets are much less centralized and less secure. Our researchers decided to find out what would happen if we attacked not the source of electricity, but the devices that consume it. In the course of the experiment, they simulated a situation where attackers had a large-scale botnet of consumer-grade Internet of Things devices, mainly water heaters, air conditioners, and other devices with high energy consumption. The researchers tried to find out how many devices would need to be hacked at the same time in order to cause a failure in the power grid.