SCADA Watch: Knowledge is Greatest Threat to Critical Infrastructure
Liam Tung writes on ZDNet Australia:
The threat of terrorism has raised concerns over the security of essential services as SCADA systems have increasingly been opened to TCP/IP protocol corporate networks to improve process automation and visibility of data.More here.
Cause for this concern was reaffirmed recently when a security expert from 3Com's security division, Tipping Point, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, demonstrated how a SCADA system flaw could be exploited to cause the system to crash.
posted by Fergie @ 8/10/2007 11:11:00 AM
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