Jan 18, 2012
Hackers rewrite smart meter power bill
“Two German researchers have exploited security holes in a smart meter service to alter energy consumption rates, expose privacy flaws and determine what movies consumers had watched.
“Dario Carluccio and Stephan Brinkhaus demonstrated the flaws with German energy company Discovergy at the Chaos Computing Congress in Berlin.
“The researchers, also customers, learnt that energy consumption data was sent unencrypted because SSL was malfunctioning.”