The modernized electric grid, the smart grid, integrates two-way communication technologies across power generation, transmission and distribution to deliver electricity efficiently, securely and cost-effectively. Its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), now expanding to customer premises, allows for real-time pricing and demand…
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Finding adequate data for network and cybersecurity research, student education and staff training is a challenging task. Researchers and other data seekers usually do not have access to the data source in order to collect the data themselves or lack…
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Merit Network researchers are leading an investigative project that is exploring cyber threats against critical infrastructure, including the modernized electric grid—the Smart Grid. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy…
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Merit Network, Inc. is proud to announce that Dr. William J. (Joe) Adams has joined Merit as its Executive Director of Research and the Michigan Cyber Range. He joins Merit after retiring from a 26-year career…
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Reprinted from PC World The few blocks of Internet addresses yet to be allocated under the old IPv4 protocol seem to be home to some "hotspots" of unwanted traffic that anyone who gets the addresses would have to pay for,…
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Reprinted from The Register Researchers probing a previously unused swath of internet addresses say they've stumbled onto the net's most blighted neighborhoods, with at least four times as much pollution as any they've ever seen. The huge chuck of more…
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