Finland a haven for vulnerable SCADA systems

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/22/finland_scada_vulnerabilities/

By Richard Chirgwin
The Register
22nd March 2013

Security researchers in Finland have turned up thousands of unsecured 
Internet-facing SCADA systems in that country, using the Shodan search engine.

The researchers, from Aalto University, ran their test in January, and found 
2,915 exposed systems running functions from building automation to transport 
and water supply. Those responses were out of a total of 185,000 Finnish IP 
addresses that responded to an HTTP request.

Exposed building automation systems, the researchers claimed, included a bank, 
a gaol, and a hospital, according to communications and networking professor 
Jukka Manner. The researchers claimed that many systems were vulnerable through 
their remote user interfaces.

Interestingly, when the university re-ran its test in March, it found that a 
large number of the systems had been removed from the Internet, although 1,969 
of the systems were still present. “A lot of problems can … still be hiding”, 
according to research assistant Seppo Tillkainen, since as much as 30 percent 
of the Finnish IP address space is still not mapped by Shodan.

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