It's Pretty Easy to Hack the Program That Runs Our Power Grids, It Turns Out
. The point of such conferences is to identify bugs in software so that companies can patch them before they’re exploited by bad guys.
Dutch security researchers Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade said that breaking into OPC UA, an open source communications protocol used by a majority, was the “easiest” thing they’d hacked at the conference so far. “In industrial control systems, there is still so much low-hanging fruit,” Keuper told MIT. “The security is lagging behind badly.
“OPC UA is used everywhere in the industrial world as a connector between systems,” Keuper told MIT. “It’s such a central component of typical industrial networks, and we can bypass authentication normally required to read or change anything. That’s why people found it to be the most important and interesting. It took just a couple of days to find.”
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