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News & Blogs - March 2017



CIA Hacking Tools Raise Huge Concerns

Fri, March 17, 2017

One alarming academic article by Dheeraj Gurugubelli and Dr Chris Foreman of Purdue University sets out how a targeted attack on smart meters could potentially result in the shutdown of the power grid, disabling energy delivery systems. (They argue that “the compromise of even a single smart meter through focused attack or reverse engineering potentially provides access to the AMI network as a whole. This, coupled with the extensive use of multiple wireless technologies and geographic dispersion, results in an attack surface of unprecedented scale.”



Time passes, and we lose friends

Wed, March 15, 2017General,




Want to Chat Securely? Here’s What to Look for in an App

Tue, March 07, 2017

“Unless they have been independently tested, we don’t know that they have made a correct choice and implemented a good algorithm, and use appropriate methods to generate and distribute keys,” according to Eugene H. Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue University.





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