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'Hacker Watchers' Pass Along Security Secrets

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

Federal scientists who study how hackers try to break into computer-based controls for nuclear reactors and other automated industrial systems are passing the secrets on to the private operators of such facilities.

The U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Homeland Security will sponsor free classes in protecting remote controls of critical infrastructure during an international cybersecurity summit in Las Vegas Sept. 28-30.

Researchers from the Idaho National Laboratory will demonstrate cybersecurity attacks on Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, or SCADA, networks that regulate electrical-supply systems and other automated industrial controls of potential terrorist targets, such as railroads, chemical plants and hydroelectric dams.

posted by Fergie @ 7/20/2006 03:28:00 PM