12 Jun 2009
Buggy 'smart meters' open door to power-grid botnet

Joy. We got one of those installed here a few weeks ago - it has cut our bill substantially, but I suspect that's only because we were being grossly overbilled in the first place.

New electricity meters being rolled out to millions of homes and businesses are riddled with security bugs that could bring down the power grid, according to a security researcher who plans to demonstrate several attacks at a security conference next month.

(link) [The Register]

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Moles, not magic, make worm 'grunting' work

Worm grunting! Who'd have thunk it?

AP - Gary Revell gets up every morning before sunrise, heads into the woods and grunts. Not because it's so early. It's the term for coaxing worms from the ground by the hundreds to be scooped up and plopped in a tin can until he can sell them for fishing bait.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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