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Re: Electrical grid's operator tries to stay ahead of hackers
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:22:47 -0500 (CDT)
Forwarded from: Richard Forno <rforno (at) infowarrior.org> Jeebus. Everyone in the world needs to take a deep breath and calm the hell down here. They're screaming bloody murder about hackers and the power grids and ZMFGTHESKYISFALLING. How quickly they forget that this kind of stufff was reported / found / observed in the 1996 PCCIP report that kicked off the whole notion of "infrastructure protection" and scaring folks into creating the whole CIP industry. Yet they continued to sacrifice security/survivability for convenience and cost-cutting, with the obvious results. (to competent infosec folks, anyway) Bottom line? Screw the breathless hysteria and headlines, WE ARE DOING THIS TO OURSELVES. -rf On Apr 9, 2009, at 07:08 , InfoSec News wrote:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6365514.html By TOM FOWLER Houston Chronicle April 8, 2009 Texas’ electric grid operator constantly upgrades its computer security to protect against intrusion by hackers, its chairman said Wednesday following published reports that foreign “spies” have probed the nation’s power grid for vulnerabilities. “We are constantly modifying and upgrading our protections as technology advances, business requirements change and new threats emerge,” said Bob Kahn, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the power grid that carries about 85 percent of the state’s electricity. The Wall Street Journal reported in Wednesday’s edition that in a number of incidents in recent years, it appears operators in China, Russia and other nations have tried to map out the U.S. power grid and hide software in systems where it might be used in the future. The story cited unnamed U.S. intelligence officials.
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