How your solar rooftop became a national security issue | TechCrunch
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- U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA published advisory detailing security vulnerabilities in EG4’s solar inverters.
- The flaws could allow an attacker with access to the same network as an affected inverter and its serial number to intercept data, install malicious firmware, or seize control of the whole system.
- “Nobody knew what the hell a solar inverter was five years ago,” observes Justin Pascale, a principal consultant at Dragos, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in industrial systems.
James Showalter describes a pretty specific if not entirely implausible nightmare scenario. Someone drives up to your house, cracks your WiFi password, and then starts messing with the solar inverte [+9089 chars]
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