A report this week on CNN that showed how a software vulnerability in a control system could be used to physically destroy power grid equipment refocused attention on an issue that some have been quietly trying to fix for several years.
The CNN segment, which aired Thursday, showed a turbine being reduced to a smoking, shuddering, metal spewing mess as the result of malicious code execution on the computer controlling the system.
The Idaho National Laboratory prepared the demonstration in March for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The simulated attack took advantage of a known software vulnerability -- since fixed -- in a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.
NetworkWorld, October 03, 2007 05:52 GMT+01
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