SCADA/Municipal water system attacks

[Derek Trotter]

Same here.  When I first heard of this, I said to myself:  "Bet these 
systems run on windows."

On 11/20/2011 14:00, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net 
> <mailto:michael at 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/2011/11/18/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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