Re: SCADA Watch: Insider Charged With Hacking California Canal System

["Daniel H. Renner" <dan () losangelescomputerhelp com>]

funsec-request () linuxbox org wrote:
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:01:38 GMT
> From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
> Subject: [funsec] SCADA Watch: Insider Charged With Hacking California
>         Canal   System
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
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> Via ComputerWorld.
>
> [snip]
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> A former employee of a small California canal system has been charged with
> installing unauthorized software and damaging the computer used to divert
> water from the Sacramento River.
>
> Michael Keehn, 61, former electrical supervisor at the Tehama Colusa Canal
> Authority (TCAA) in Willows, Calif., faces 10 years in prison on charges
> that he "intentionally caused damage without authorization to a protected
> computer," according to Keehn's Nov. 15 indictment. He did this by
> installing unauthorized software on the TCAA's Supervisory Control and Data
> Acquisition (SCADA) system, the indictment states.
>
> Keehn accessed the system on or about Aug. 15, according to the indictment.
> He is set to appear in federal court on Dec. 4 to face charges of computer
> fraud.
>
> As an electrical supervisor with the authority, he was responsible for
> computer systems and is still listed as the contact for the organization's
> Web site.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art
> icleId=9050098
>
> - - ferg
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> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg(at)netzero.net
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

That's one way to secure a federal retirement pension - not my preferred 
way mind you...


Sincerely,

Daniel H. Renner
President
Los Angeles Computerhelp
A division of Computerhelp, Inc.
818-352-8700
http://losangelescomputerhelp.com

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