Re: SCADA/Municipal water system attacks

>>>      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/2011/11/18/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