Botnets and Electrical Grids
Heise picked up on our recent ACSAC Paper. DerStandard.at also reads Heise. Gamestar.de and Ad-hoc-news.de also published articles. Summary on futurezone.at.
The paper “Grid Shock: Coordinated Load-Change Attacks on Power Grids” by Adrian Dabrowski, Johanna Ullrich, and Edgar Weippl was recently presented at the 2017 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 33).
Our work analyzes whether large-scale botnets are able to modulate electric power consumption in a coordinate way to bring down the power grid. ACSAC is a leading conference in applied computer security. In total, 48 out of 244 submissions were accepted, resulting in an acceptance rate of 19.7%. ACSAC 33 will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in December 2017.