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Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt power grids (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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The growth of domestic solar installations opens the possibility of hackers targeting their smart inverter devices as a way to cause widespread power-system failures

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Easy solution. Ban cloud based solar inverters, put the monitoring on board and make it work through LAN discovery. Then the whole thing doesnt need any internet connection. I never did something like that before and it took me less then a day to set up with a raspberrypi, so these companies can definitely do it.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 9 points 11 hours ago

But then they don't make money via surveillance!