Is the point of making it public to bring pressure from the hopefully irate public so that something is done to correct the problem? As stated in earlier posts, the repairs are very expensive and it seems that the owners don't really want to spend the money.
I'm just trying to figure out why this is becoming public at this time. According to the article it's been in the system since 2011.
“The hack became known to insiders last week when a DHS alert bulletin was issued by the agency’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team to its industry members. The bulletin said the “BlackEnergy” penetration recently had been detected by several companies.
DHS said “BlackEnergy” is the same malware that was used by a Russian cyber-espionage group dubbed “Sandworm” to target NATO and some energy and telecommunications companies in Europe earlier this year. “Analysis of the technical findings in the two reports shows linkages in the shared command and control infrastructure between the campaigns, suggesting both are part of a broader campaign by the same threat actor,” the DHS bulletin said.”
Obama has been talking up getting money fro Republicans to improve our infrastructure. Of course after he gets the money it will go to bicycle paths.