The FBI has seen an increase of smart meter hacks which allow consumers to reduced power bills by 50-75%. Crazy hacking skills are not required and can be accomplished by using a magnet to fake ...

Detailed smart meter data can show what TV shows you watch, scan for copyright-protected DVD movies you watch, and other privacy intrusive details. Yet it takes an amateur hacker only two days to ...

Join us on Wednesday, April 14 at noon Pacific for the Inside Smart Meters Hack Chat with [Hash]! That electrical meter on the side of your house might not look like it, but it’s pretty packed ...

A series of hacks perpetrated against so-called “smart meter” installations over the past several years may have cost a single U.S. electric utility hundreds of millions of dollars annually ...

Computer-security researchers say new smart meters that are designed to help deliver electricity more efficiently also have flaws that could let hackers tamper with the power grid in previously ...

Most smart meters that are installed, or are soon to be installed, in hundreds of millions of homes around the world are woefully insecure and can be easily hacked by a remote attacker to alter ...

Security consulting firm SecureState today released a new open source hacking tool that it claims will let security researchers and penetration testers verify the ...

Smart meters used to deliver electricity more efficiently have flaws that could let hackers tamper with the power grid, according to a new report.

Data safety and fraudulent use are two of the security issues surrounding smart meters By the year 2020 about 30 million British homes will have digital smart meters monitoring their gas and ...

In the name of urban anarchy and intellectual stimulation, a team of three hackers has figured out how to break the security systems of a variety of parking meters.