A new report from the respected think tank Pike Research has concluded that the world's electrical grid security is in a state of "near chaos."
The report titled "Utility Cyber Security" states "the attackers clearly have the upper hand" and that many of the attacks on the electrical grid cannot be prevented.
The electrical grid is suffering from aging infrastructures with older equipment having no security built into it, the report says. Much of the equipment is decades old, and the only security it has is what is called in the security industry "security by obscurity," a term that describes attempts to use the relative rarity of a system as the only defense against cyber attack.
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