Must’ve been Tea Party people....you know what a threat they are.
Most plants (Power, water, utility etc.)are vulnerable to this attack. The Stuxnet virus variations attacks the control systems.
I don’t get why process control systems like this have to be connected to the internet. If so, they only should be in a viewing mode.
Do we have to allow someone to position the main steam stop valve in a power plant from their house? We never used to.
If we tie this infrastructure to the internet; sabotage is inevitable; and sooner than anyone thinks. How many times have we heard that 128 bit keys are uncrackable, then someone cracks them in less than a week? The solution is to keep these systems off the net.
The expectation of ignorance is not a susbstitution for security.
Jon Corzine is from that area of Illinois. Not that I’m suggesting anything about finding the $700 million that went missing.
Ping.
Sounds like someone’s managed to reverse engineer the stuxnet malware.
And so it begins...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396835,00.asp
“DHS, FBI Find ‘No Evidence’ of Public Water Utility Hack”
By Chloe Albanesius
November 23, 2011 02:14pm EST
SNIPPET: “The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI on Wednesday shot down reports that a cyber attack recently took down a pump at an Illinois public water utility.
“After detailed analysis, DHS and the FBI have found no evidence of a cyber intrusion into the SCADA system of the Curran-Gardner Public Water District in Springfield, Illinois,” a DHS spokesman said in a statement.”
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Dancho Danchev
Posted on @ZDNet - SCADA systems at the Water utilities in Illinois, Houston, hacked - is.gd/ClsdCe #security #SCADA
21 Nov via HootSuite
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@danchodanchev
Dancho Danchev
Cracker using the handle pr0f has posted details on the hacked SCADA systems at the Water utilities in Illinois,Houston is.gd/luGPOI
21 Nov via HootSuite
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396632,00.asp
“Illinois Water Utility Pump Destroyed After Hack”
By Chloe Albanesius
November 18, 2011 05:28pm EST
SNIPPET: “Joe Weiss, managing partner at Applied Control Systems LLC, said in a Thursday blog post that cyber scammers hacked a Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) software vendor and stole customer usernames and passwords. During the hack, however, the SCADA system was powered on and off, burning out a water pump, he said.
Department of Homeland Security spokesman Peter Boogaard said officials were investigating the incident.”