Potential Threats to Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Devices | Linux Today

Potential Threats to Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Devices

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James Patterson
Apr 15, 2022

Chris Westphal, Cybersecurity Evangelist at Ordr, talks about an alert that came out recently from CISA and the Department of Energy (DOE), about potential threats to uninterruptible power supply (UPS) devices that are connected to the internet.

What CISA and the DOE were warning about is that threat actors have the ability to connect these devices and deploy malicious firmware, which allows them to remotely control these devices and potentially shut them off (and subsequently shut off the devices that are connected to them) and even destroy them.

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James Patterson

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