US probing cyber attacks on gas pipelines

DefenceTalk.com ^

[DTAD]

A campaign of cyber attacks has been targeting US natural gas pipeline operators, officials acknowledged, raising security concerns about vulnerabilities in key infrastructure.

[Bernard Marx]

And the attacks are probably coming from Berkeley, CA, Eugene, OR, Madison, WI and other bastions of Enviro-Think, not China or Russia.

[SunkenCiv]

Panetta’s fault. Thanks DTAD.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Public infrastructure shouldn’t be reachable from the public internet, at least not without a heavy protection of encryption and passwords.