Join us for an evening of fun at this month’s hack::soho taking place 25 June, 6pm – 9pm GMT, set up to be a loose networking environment where cyber security professionals can chat, get some complimentary food & drink, and discuss rising global trends.
This month’s hack::soho features a talk from Colin Cassidy, IOActive Principal Security Consultant. The abstract of the talk, ‘ACME Windpharm‘ is below!
hack::soho is a monthly event hosted at our London, UK office for the cybersecurity and hacking community to discuss all things security over food and refreshments. We welcome you to invite others in your circle to extend our collective network.
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ABSTRACT
The talk will cover the basics of windfarms and their operations, I’ll briefly discuss prior research in this area, noting that those findings are still valid today. Then the core of this talk will focus on identified security threats and their mitigations based on real life assessments. The impact these threats can have both in terms of windfarm operation and the physical damage that can be caused. I will show how physical and remote access to the windfarm can be gained, and by investigating the vulnerabilities found, I will show that there is an over-reliance on security boxes and buzzword solutions that has left general, basic, security hygiene lacking. So much so that that in some cases, not only have systems not been patched, but they were installed insecurely in the first place. I will then discuss the recent 2025 Polish renewables attack and how it ties back to all the topics covered earlier.