[Gabrielle Reilly]

Let's hope this is an unrelated incident. Thought you may like this information from a specialist in cyber terrorism and national defense.

Sorry if this is in the wrong section but thought people interested in WOT would be interested in this. It is probably nothing but interesting to note.

[EggsAckley]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[chance33_98]

Good reading from a fellow geek :)

[MizSterious]

Mark for reading later...

[lelio]

Some basic SCADA info.

[StatesEnemy]

Whoa....!

[Gabrielle Reilly]

Thought you may be interested. Probably unrelated but interesting to note on terrorism and power black outs.

[Djarum]

Vitek Boden, a disgruntled former employee of the company that had installed the computerized water system for Maroochy Shire Council, hacked into the sewage control computers and used radio transmissions to alter pump station operations.

I don't think any hacking was required; the system was a LAN with no passwords to secure access.

[expatguy]

Thanks for the ping. I think this is something we all need to be paying attention to as it exposes exposes vulnerabilities.

[pttttt]

Richard Clarke made some sensible comments on Good Morning America on ABC News (American Broadcasting Company) this morning. He said (paraphrased - it isn't transcripted yet) it might not have been caused by terrorists or hackers but to say right now that it absolutely couldn't have been terrorists was premature, that there was no way to know that at this point and one should keep an open mind.

He said that a Sandia team had proven many times that the system could be hacked and that infosecurity standards (and voluntary ones, at that) had only just been adopted Wednesday.

Looks like another hot day in the East. It might be hard to bring power back up quickly as all those air conditioners come back on.

I wonder how electricity deregulation helps or hurts this. Normally deregulation helps rationalize excesses in capacity into lower costs. But maybe we want some excess capacity.

[Eaker]

Interesting Ping

[Gabrielle Reilly]

UK blackout now.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/972196/posts