On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:

> There was some idle chat here prior about Stuxnet and how it almost
> single-handed stopped or at least delayed Iran's Nuclear aspirations, and
> I'd commented on how there was a variant called Duqu that was running
> rampant in our SCADA systems that run municipal water.
>
> Seems our environmentals that run cities have and are being exploited more
> frequently with more disclosures in the past few days of incidents in
> Springfield Illinois and Houston Texas.  Not only do I guarantee security
> on these systems and networks not up to par, their embedded and obscure
> nature means they probably aren't even regularly patched to take advantage.
>  In the Springfield incident they actually caused damage to a critical
> pump, and it's only going to continue to get worse as it's now being talked
> about more mainstream and word spreads.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2011/11/17/water_utility_**hacked/<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/17/water_utility_hacked/>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2011/11/18/second_water_**utility_hack/<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/18/second_water_utility_hack/>
>
> I know I sleep better at night knowing all this software runs on old
> windoze systems!  Even better is how they're talking about in here how they
> are often now internet connected systems so they can be managed remotely to
> save costs (i.e. outsource it).  Maybe letting the Chinese government run
> our city water systems isn't quite what they had in mind, but anything to
> save a buck in these trying times I suppose...
>
> -mb
>

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