{"id":96653,"date":"2019-09-25T01:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/algorithms-could-stop-an-internet-of-things-attack-from-bringing-down-the-power-grid"},"modified":"2019-09-25T01:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T08:43:00","slug":"algorithms-could-stop-an-internet-of-things-attack-from-bringing-down-the-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/algorithms-could-stop-an-internet-of-things-attack-from-bringing-down-the-power-grid","title":{"rendered":"Algorithms could stop an \u2018internet of things\u2019 attack from bringing down the power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/algorithms-could-stop-an-internet-of-things-attack-from-bringing-down-the-power-grid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Princeton researchers identified a disturbing security flaw in which hackers could someday exploit internet-connected appliances to wreak havoc on the electrical grid. Now, the same research team has released algorithms to make the grid more resilient to such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published online in the journal <i>IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering<\/i>, a team from Princeton\u2019s Department of Electrical Engineering presented algorithms to protect against potential attacks that would spike demand from high-wattage devices such as air conditioners\u2014all part of the \u201cinternet of things\u201d\u2014in an effort to overload the power grid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cyberphysical nature of the grid makes this threat very important to counter, because a large-scale blackout can have very critical consequences,\u201d said study author Prateek Mittal, an associate professor of electrical engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Princeton researchers identified a disturbing security flaw in which hackers could someday exploit internet-connected appliances to wreak havoc on the electrical grid. Now, the same research team has released algorithms to make the grid more resilient to such attacks. In a paper published online in the journal IEEE Transactions on Network Science and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41,418,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-information-science","category-internet","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}