A Cyberattack Has Caused Confirmed Physical Damage for the Second Time Ever

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

 http://www.wired.com/2015/01/german-steel-mill-hack-destruction/

Amid all the noise the Sony hack generated over the holidays, a far
more troubling cyber attack was largely lost in the chaos. Unless you
follow security news closely, you likely missed it.

I’m referring to the revelation, in a German report released just
before Christmas
[http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Lagebericht2014.pdf]
that hackers had struck an unnamed steel mill in Germany. They did so
by manipulating and disrupting control systems to such a degree that a
blast furnace could not be properly shut down, resulting in
“massive”—though unspecified—damage.
...

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