Dale Peterson is SPOT ON #pauto #cybersecurity #ICS-CERT #hacking #critical_infrastructure

July 8, 2013
Writing in his Digital Bond blog, Dale Peterson is absolutely spot on today, and so is Ralph Langner's comment on Dale's post. “Ultimately, none were successful” 

Writing in his Digital Bond blog, Dale Peterson is absolutely spot on today, and so is Ralph Langner's comment on Dale's post.

“Ultimately, none were successful” 

The spring edition of the ICS-CERT Monthly Monitor’s lead story is “Brute Force Attacks On Internet Facing Control Systems”. It got picked up by a large number of the mainstream press including the Wall Street Journal. Author Rachel King points out that according to ICS-CERT, “These attempted attacks originated from 49 IP addresses but ultimately, none were successful”.

SCADAsec and other lists have been going on about this story for a while now; I’ve been surprised by the discussion that is missing the big points. I’m full of enough outrage and disbelief to break my self imposed complaining about ICS-CERT ban:

Read the rest of Dale's blog, and Ralph's comment here. 

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