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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. And so I was always kind of into you know, wireless stuff.

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MY TAKE: Technology breakthroughs, emerging standards are coalescing to assure IoT integrity

The Last Watchdog

Infineon, for instance, is known for supplying secured, energy-efficient semiconductors and microcontrollers which are critical for IoT security. Wider availability of high-speed wireless networks, like 5G, and the continuing shift to robust cloud computing services, has helped, as well. This, indeed, is what’s happening.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

The updates are done through firmware, firmware updates that we get from the vendor. It's individual pieces of it that fall apart and become a nightmare for that company or that utility or whatever. The wireless Bill has been around for quite some time. They're going to have some kind of graphical interface.

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