RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher GE’s Ecomagination Challenge is a $200 million call to action for businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators, and students to share their best ideas and come together to take on one of the world’s toughest challenges – building the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21st century. SecureRF has submitted [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher A few weeks ago I posted a blog entry titled “Lack Of Security In Smart-Meter Rollouts.”  This topic continues to get an increasing amount of press, including these two articles: “Smart” Power Grids a Prime Target in Cyber Warfare in Security Week. http://www.securityweek.com/smart-power-grids-prime-target-cyber-warfare Energy Insecurities: The Downside of Being Too [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Smart Grid security covers a wide spectrum of technologies from fences and video cameras at the power generation facilities and substations to securing the data in the embedded systems and metering devices used to monitor and adjust a homeowner’s usage. These Smart Meter security issues have been in the news a lot recently. Elinor [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher SecureRF Corporation has received its first patent! The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted SecureRF U.S. Patent 7,649,999 for the world’s first cryptography method to run in linear time. The patented algorithm provides a key agreement protocol and a method for generating a secret key to facilitate secure [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I recently ran across another blog which covers security issues, The Smart Grid Security Blog, which is subtitled “Got to get it right this time.” It is authored by two Boston area security executives: Andy Bochman – http://www.linkedin.com/in/andybochman Jack Danahy – http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jack-danahy/a/2a0/1b6 I recommend you read their October 19th post and [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher A co-worker sent me an article called Buggy ‘smart meters’ open door to power-grid botnet: Grid-burrowing worm only the beginning (Thanks, Henry). “For an embedded platform, they’re kind of scary,” said Mike Davis, a senior security consultant for IOActive about the buggy software running on meters for the Smart Grid.  [...]