Security Architect Warns of Electric Cyber Grid Threat
The day before the Wall Street Journal reported on a breach of the telecommunications coordinating the US electrical supply, Melih Abdulhayoglu called the public's attention to it on YouTube.
Jersey City, NJ (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 10, 2009 -- Melih Abdulhayoglu alerted the American public to a threat to their power supply before the story broke in the Wall Street Journal.
Abdulhayoglu is an expert on Internet security. He is the founder and Chief Security Architect of the Comodo Companies. The Comodo Companies distribute PC security software installed in tens of millions of computers around the world, and are the second-largest issuer of high-assurance SSL certificates.
"Do we really want to build this smart grid…for it only to be used against us?" He said on Tuesday. "We've got to be sure those smart meters are protected."
The next day, April 8, Siobhan Gorman at the Wall Street Journal broke the news that cyberspies, most likely from China and Russia had penetrated the cybergrid that controls the US electrical supply, and had left behind potentially disruptive software.
"The CIA has already admitted that cities have been taken down by criminal activities, by attacks." American users of electricity are "lucrative targets," he said. He urged the US not to "build all our houses and homes into this thing and make it all vulnerable."
For more about the vulnerability of the US cyber grid, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpaTyE4Z0t0.
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