{"id":1440,"date":"2014-07-21T19:32:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2014-07-21T19:32:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T19:32:33","slug":"german-utility-says-dont-underestimate-threat-of-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"German utility says don\u2019t underestimate threat of cyber attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1440\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>In an interview with the news agency,\u00a0Stadtwerke Ettlingen\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Eberhard Oehler said that a simulated attack on the utility had revealed how easy it would be to hack into the energy company\u2019s network through its IT grid.<\/p>\n<p>Felix Lindner, head of IT security company Recurity Labs, who conducted the cyber attack in November 2014, said he gained access to Stadtwerke Ettlingen\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>control room and could have \u201cswitched off everything: power, water and gas\u201d for the town of Ettlingen, home to 40,000 people in the south of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Oehler said:\u00a0\u201dThe experiment has shown that sensitive, critical infrastructure is not sufficiently protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As more components of an energy company\u2019s infrastructure come online, including smart meters, concerns are increasing about the vulnerability of hackers tapping into customer and utility data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metering.com\/german-utility-says-dont-underestimate-threat-of-cyber-attacks\/\">Full story from Metering.com by clicking here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the news agency,\u00a0Stadtwerke Ettlingen\u2019s\u00a0Eberhard Oehler said that a simulated attack on the utility had revealed how easy it would be to hack into the energy company\u2019s network through its IT grid. Felix Lindner, head of IT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=1440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-latest-news-ideas-problems-strategies-and-tactics-in-securing-cyberspace-and-virtual-organizations-discussed-by-experts-in-industries-as-well-as-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}