[31226] in bugtraq
Re: CNN: 'Explores Possibility that Power Outage is Related to Internet Worm'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yannick Van Osselaer)
Fri Aug 15 16:35:34 2003
From: Yannick Van Osselaer <yannick.vanosselaer@pi.be>
To: "Geoff Shively" <gshively@pivx.com>, <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:18:18 +0200
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Op vrijdag 15 augustus 2003 00:18, schreef Geoff Shively:
> Just flipped on CNN, watching the masses snake through the streets of
> Manhattan as correspondents state that this could be an affect of the
> blaster worm.
>
> Interesting but I don't see how an worm of this magnitude (smaller than
> that of Slammer/Sapphire and others) could influence DCS and SCADA systems
> around the US, particularly just in the North East.
>
> Thoughts?
Well, it might be possible because the SCADA systems run on Windows 2000/XP
and some are connected to the internet.
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/view/>
Includes some information about the power grid.
<http://www.automationtechies.com/sitepages/pid641.php>
Articles about SCADA systems.
Just my two cents.
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Yannick Van Osselaer
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