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).
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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.