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Re: Wired on hacking the electric grid
From: phester <funsec () armorfirewall com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:33:32 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Gadi Evron wrote:
http://m.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/hacking-the-electric-grid-you-and-what-army/
A well written piece of fluffery. His main argument boils down to security by obscurity, e.g.; " The fact of the matter is that it isn.t easy to do any of these things. Your average power grid or drinking-water system isn.t analogous to a PC or even to a corporate network. The complexity of such systems, and the use of proprietary operating systems and applications that are not readily available for study by your average hacker, make the development of exploits for any uncovered vulnerabilities much more difficult than using Metasploit. " Meanwhile, in the real world; http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2010/07/15/windows-day-vulnerability-shortcut-files-usb/ " Brian Krebs reported on his blog that the payload appears to be looking for content specific to Siemens SCADA software[...] " _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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