Thousands of solar and wind turbines with security gaps
Based on research by the Plusminus magazine, the Tagesschau published under the title “Easy game for hackers” that solar and wind power plants sometimes have massive security gaps. Above all, medium-sized and small systems are said to be poorly protected against hackers, which is also documented live in the article. In the contribution of the ARD magazine Plusminus, an expert from the field of renewable energies shows how poorly small and medium-sized solar and wind power plants are protected against hack attacks. For the contribution, the system expert searched partly live for vulnerable systems and quickly found what he was looking for. In minutes: access to wind farm for 50.000…