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Cyberattacks Make Smart Grids Look Pretty Dumb
An outage in South America is a reminder that connected devices can become easy entry points for hackers.
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Imagine if your thermostat led to a region-wide power blackout.
It’s a scenario that’s looking increasingly plausible. Argentina isn’t ruling out a cyberattack as the possible cause for the mass outage that affected millions of people in five South American countries over the weekend. Even if that incident turns out to have a more innocent explanation, the U.S. government is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s power grid, the New York Times reported Saturday, citing unnamed officials.