Dive Summary:
- Spencer McIntyre, a researcher for the consulting firm SecureState, has developed an open-source hacking tool to test smart meter vulnerabilities.
- McIntyre will demo Termineter next week at the BSides security conference in Las Vegas.
- McIntyre's SecureState teams worked with power and utility vendors to develop the tool, which has been made publicly available for downloading.
From the article:
A smart grid researcher today released a free open-source hacking tool to test the security of smart meters. But this is a different researcher than the one who pulled his talk and public release of a similar tool earlier this year amid concerns by a smart grid vendor.
Spencer McIntyre, a member of SecureState's Research & Innovation Team, says his company basically lucked out and wasn't pressured by vendors worried about the release today of his so-called Termineter tool, which he will demonstrate next week at the BSides conference in Las Vegas. ...
