It doesn't take a rocket scientist to demonstrate actual control system cyber issues

Oct. 7, 2009

Until recently, almost all of the hacking demonstrations were performed by the national laboratories implicitly indicating that vulnerabilities took a "rocket scientist" to understand and demonstrate. Lately, there have been a number of control system hacking demonstrations from commercial/vulnerability researchers.  At the ACS Conference on the 20th, we will have a vulnerability researcher hack AMI infrastructure. We will also have an end-user demonstrate how easy it is to create a broadcast storm affecting legacy field control equipment which has ALREADY shutdown a nuclear plant and a number of process facilities.
Joe Weiss

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