Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms

Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by brianwawok on Thursday June 29, 2017 @11:09AM (#14663898)

Sorry I am not well versed in the rest APIs of wind turbines. But based on how most of such things, I would suspect there are switches you could flip that would make very bad things happen to the turbine...

if the API is literally foolproof, then great. But an API that can cause no damage does not make a lot of sense to be paired to a device that has poor network security.

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Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by arm85 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @11:19AM (#14663972)

REST API? Wind turbine SCADA systems use interfaces like modbus or canbus, etc.

Security in these systems are dedicated network circuits and firewalls configured to only allow access on a specific port, from a specific IP address on a specific port.

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Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by forgottenpass on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:56PM (#14665391)

Nah man, I have it on good authority that a node.js frontend to a series of Rust microservices is the best design for these control systems. Quit joshing me that anything else is ever used in any domain.

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Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by noir_lord on Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:10PM (#14666891)

Node.js?

Old technology our fusion reactors all run TypeScript compiled down to WebAssembly with some Elm interop.

Mostly the Elm is there so our devs can go to conferences and look down on others for not using Elm, I mean why else would you adopt new technology if not for that?.

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Re:Researchers Found They Could Hack Wind Farms by horsawlarway on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:40PM (#14665807)

I don't think he really even read the article...

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