After hackers attacked several Ukrainian power companies in December of last year, the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure has faced increased scrutiny. But, according to a new report, workers at nuclear power plants, chemical plants, defense contractors and other infrastructure sectors are still communicating—at least in part—with pagers that transmit messages without encryption, leaving them exposed to even modestly-resourced hackers. The sort of information that plant employees transmit using pagers includes diagnostics of plants, names, contact details, and other information that researchers say could be used to create effective social engineering attacks.
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