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Interview with SCADA hacker pr0f about the state of infrastructure security

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Nov

2011

Last week I wrote a story on the compromise of an industrial control system in Illinois that destroyed a pump at a water processing facility. The same day a hacker came forward and posted internal information on pastebin.com from another compromised utility in South Houston, Texas. Within hours of publication I was contacted by the […]

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US SCADA infrastructure woefully unprotected

19

Nov

2011

It has been reported that a SCADA systems failure at a municipal water processing plant may have been caused by hackers infiltrating their network. The attackers were repeatedly turning a pump on and off until it caused the pump to fail, raising an alert to the operators. Upon investigation they determined that attackers may have […]

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Keeping Tabs on the Next STUXNET

20

Oct

2011

The security industry is currently buzzing with talks about a threat dubbed as the precursor to the next STUXNET.According to a Symantec analysis, portions of the code are very similar to STUXNET, and was likely written by the same cybercriminals as the well-known threat. Unlike STUXNET, however, Duqu does not have code that suggests it […]

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