Posted on 12/20/2014 1:07:05 PM PST by aimhigh
A German steel factory suffered massive damage after hackers managed to access production networks, allowing them to tamper with the controls of a blast furnace, the government said in its annual IT security report. . . . . .
Due to these failures, one of the plant’s blast furnaces could not be shut down in a controlled manner, which resulted in “massive damage to plant,” the BSI said, describing the technical skills of the attacker as “very advanced.”
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Yes, either get some experts you can trust, or go retro, old school with the storage of data. It may be time to go back to paper for certain kinds of data. This hacking is spinning out of control, and the guilty parties remain faceless, for the most part.
Cyber security is largely a fool’s game.
There should be no connection between a blast furnace and the internet.
I’d bet the steel company is ThyssenKrupp. I work for one of their North American divisions and we were subjected to the types if email phishing mentioned in the article for mire than a week. I was getting hundreds a day.
We share servers with Germany.
A lot seems to have happened in tech since you operated your last blast furnace.
This is an IT guy's wet dream.
Wait, Wait.
How can I check in on my blast furnace job from home in front of the TV?
Doesn’t change anything.
There is no good reason an outside entity should have any means of controlling a blast furnace without being in the building.
Nothing on the internet is truly secure or ever will be.
America will be salvaged if and when we go back to THINKING like we're a Noeman Rockwell illustration.
We LOVED that view of ourselves and really wanted to BE that America.
In many ways we were ... but not as idealistically as portrayed
Still ... it was the idea of the great idea that we loved
Most water systems across the country are now monitored and controllable via the internet. Kinda like dominos, ready to fall.
I have my own well and pump but I still need electricity to run them. Also internet connected.
Technology is not the answer to every question.
I'm a tech guy. It's how I make my living.
And so much of today's tech is facebook, twitter, and porn. Today's technology really ISN'T making our lives better.
I think we need to stop. Slow things down. And really ask ourselves if the Norman Rockwell vision is something we might want to get back to. Or is the Obamacare website really the future we've always dreamed about?
I am responsible fro several process control computer system. They are not connected to the outside world by any means. First order solution.
“There should be no connection between a blast furnace and the internet.”
I don’t understand this drive to put things so critical on the world wide web either.
And to you.
“Most water systems across the country are now monitored and controllable via the internet. Kinda like dominos, ready to fall.”
Monitored, fine. Controllable via the internet, insanity.
Towers are EVERYWHERE around here.
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