"While cyberattackers and defenders duel for advantage in ever-more-complex digital battlegrounds, a set of basic vulnerabilities affecting power grids, factories and pipelines has gone largely unaddressed.

A vast number of sensors and other remote controllers that send vital data to control rooms -- and receive instructions in return -- weren't built with cybersecurity in mind.

That leaves their relatively unprotected communications prime targets for attackers, cybersecurity officials and consultants say."

Peter Behr and Blake Sobczak report for EnergyWire in Part Two of a series October 16, 2014. [2]

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Part One: "Security: Inside Homeland Security's High-Flying 'Sanity Check' for Energy Cyberthreats" [3]