Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks with Dewan Chowdhury, the founder and CEO of MalCrawler, about hacking power grids and a honeypot they built to mimic an energy management system. Four industrial control system vendors each announced vulnerabilities that ranged from critical to high-severity. Security problems in Schneider Electric programmable logic controllers allow compromise of the hardware, responsible for physical plant operations. Security experts say the vulnerabilities range from critical or high to critical and allow hackers to hack power grids.
Source: https://threatpost.com/dewan-chowdhury-on-hacking-power-grids/116386/