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ICS-Sniper attack target: water treatment pumps and a PLC cabinet with a cellular router Blog New Research: Attackers Can Disrupt a Plant Without Breaking Its Encryption On November 3, 2026, researchers at the University of British Columbia published an attack they call ICS-Sniper. It disrupts an industrial process without decrypting a single packet, without touching anything…
Distribution pole and roadside cellular cabinet at dusk, the wide area private cellular edge a utility has to secure Blog Private Cellular Growth Moved Wide Area. The Security Model Has to Move With It Stand at the base of a distribution pole forty miles from the control center. There is a recloser near the top and a steel cabinet below it, and inside the…
Exposed OT devices in supermarket refrigeration, the systems behind the European fridge attacks Blog What the European Supermarket Fridge Attacks Tell Us About Exposed OT On October 12, 2026, attackers took control of refrigeration systems in French supermarkets overnight and pushed fridge and freezer temperatures to 50°C (122°F). France’s finance minister told parliament that about…
Industrial site running private 5G assembled from multiple vendors, with one system of record for every connected asset Blog Private 5G Is a Building-Block Play Now. Every Combination Still Needs a System of Record Walk onto a plant floor that switched on private 5G last year and ask who built it. The answer is almost never one company. The radios came from one supplier,…
Satellite cellular backup for utilities: an electrical substation silhouetted against a dusk sky Blog Satellite Is the Next Cellular Frontier for Utilities The storm has passed, but the substation still hasn’t heard from its reclosers. The private LTE site on the ridge lost commercial power hours ago, and its batteries are running…
Hostile SIM risk: cellular router with SIM tray in an open field cabinet on a utility pole beside a substation at dusk Blog A Hostile SIM Card Can Take Over the Modem in Your Field Device The Card Everyone Trusts Can Give Orders In August 2026, researchers from the University of Birmingham and Fuzzware presented CATana, a study of SIM-originating AT commands, at USENIX WOOT ’26.…
ATM jackpotting risk: a standalone ATM with cellular antennas at the back of a gas station at night Blog ATM Jackpotting in 2026: Why the Cellular Router Is Urgent More than Ever On February 19, 2026, the FBI warned that ATM jackpotting is rising across the United States. The bureau counted 1,900 jackpotting incidents since 2020, more than 700 of them in…
Robots, machine-vision cameras and edge AI hardware on a factory floor linked over a network with private 5G security Blog Private 5G Could Hit $84.7B as AI Moves to the Edge $84.7 billion in private LTE and 5G network spending by 2031, up from $17.3 billion this year. I read that as a forecast of something other than revenue. It is…
Transmission towers at dusk illustrating CIP-015 and BOD 26-02 internal network monitoring for electric utilities Blog CIP-015 and BOD 26-02 Are the Same Requirement Wearing Two Different Names Two federal directives landed in 2026 that look like they have nothing to do with each other. NERC’s CIP-015-1 tells electric utilities to start watching traffic inside their own electronic…
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