Black Hat 2009: Security Gaps in Embedded Systems and the Smart Grid, but not RFID

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.  [...]

Privacy More Then Security Is In the News

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I try to contribute to the RFID Security blog every week. Today is Friday and I realized it has been over 2 weeks since my last entry. Why? Recently the news from the RFID industry has been slow and kind of boring (or for some, depressing) while the topic of [...]