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RE: east coast powergrid / SCADA [OT?]
From: Darren Bennett <DARREN.L.BENNETT () saic com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:54:55 -0700
Yes, the "five 9's" of reliability that MS talks about is more like .99999 of the time than 99.999%. Another possibility is that some things WERE on MS and while not connected to the internet directly, were infected via a laptop or other internal system. -Darren On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 12:40, RMcElroy () mbe com wrote:
At least on the west coast they do not, I think the requirements of the systems are way out of Microsoft's range. Lot's and Lot's of Unix -----Original Message----- From: Michael Scheidell [mailto:scheidell () secnap net] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:36 AM To: tetsujin Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] east coast powergrid / SCADA [OT?]Paller said it is "highly unlikely" that the process control computersbehind critical infrastructure like power in the United States would run on the Windows operating system.well, ONTARIO HYDRO does seem to have SOME windoes boxes.. at least here is one that appears to have been infected with slammer: http://www.hackertrap.net/LID.pl?IID=39335068 (Aug 9th through the 12th?)
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