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Re: GSS warns that hackers can now destroy hardware
From: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:52:21 +0200
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 13:14 -0500, Joel R. Helgeson wrote:
Are you scared yet? [snip] http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/653079/ Global Secure Systems, the specialist IT security consultants and system integrators, has warned that hackers can now destroy hardware systems, as well as software. David Hobson, Managing Director at GSS, said that a US government video of a power station generator, released to the media earlier this week, clearly shows what can happen when hackers take over control of a turbine system. "The Department of Homeland Security video shows a mock-up of an industrial turbine taken over by hackers and destroyed by turning it into a heap of smoking metal," he said. "This is what can happen to your company's hardware if a hacker gains access. We're not talking about a software crash - which is bad enough - we're talking about real physical damage," he added. [snip] Real physical damage can be done only if your system is mechanical tied to an unsecured computer subsystem. This is so naively stupid I could rant for hours...
Not really. They can remotely destroy a floppy in your drive agressively moving the head for hours! Reminds me of this rather old article: http://newengland.naisg.org/Archive/2004/05Graphics/computer_bomb.jpg -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) _______________________________________________ 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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