US energy officials have found unexplained communication equipment inside some Chinese-made inverter devices.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34531692

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US energy officials have found unexplained communication equipment inside some Chinese-made inverter devices.

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Reuters reported the presence of undocumented and “rogue” communication devices in a number of Chinese-made solar inverters. These could potentially introduce unregulated and undocumented remote communication channels to the inverters, by which an actor could remotely bypass the cybersecurity firewalls that utility companies use to prevent direct communication back to China.

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    7•2 days ago

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