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Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal Murray)
Mon Nov 21 17:22:24 2011
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:21:21 -0800
Cc: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On an Illinois water utility:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45359594/ns/technology_and_science-security
That URL says:
> The Nov. 8 incident was described in a one-page report from the Illinois
> Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center, according to Joe Weiss, a
> prominent expert on protecting infrastructure from cyber attacks.
Joe Weiss gave a good talk at Stanford last Oct 12.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/
My quick summary: The whole SCADA industry isn't tuned into network security
issues. It's not part of their culture.
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Several years ago, Idaho National Labs ran an experiment. They blew up a
diesel generator by remote control. Aurora is the buzzword.
The abstract page for his talk has a link to a CNN video. It only has a few
seconds of the generator. Here is a longer version on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyWngDco3g
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