Smart METER Hacking?
Are Smart Meters DUMB?
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AP Exclusive: `Smart' meters have security holes
By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer Jordan Robertson, Ap Technology Writer – Fri Mar 26, 2:19 pm ET

SAN FRANCISCO – 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 impossible ways.

At the very least, the vulnerabilities open the door for attackers to jack up strangers' power bills. These flaws also could get hackers a key step closer to exploiting one of the most dangerous capabilities of the new technology, which is the ability to remotely turn someone else's power on and off.

Mr. Wright SAID his firm found "egregious" errors, such as flaws in the meters and the technologies that utilities use to MANAGE data from meters. "Even though these protocols were designed recently, they exhibit security failures we've known about for the past 10 years," he said.

He said InGuardians found vulnerabilities in products from all FIVE of the meter makers the firm studied. He would not disclose those manufacturers.