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Report: Cybercriminals Have Penetrated US Electrical Grid

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Posted 08 April 2009 - 06:30 AM

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Posted 08 April 2009 - 11:39 AM

Why aren't and why can't these systems be closed to the internet entirely?
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 12:03 PM

Whose stupid idea was it to connect the power grid to the internet!!?? That's just inviting trouble! If NASA gets their own network why can't the US power grid?
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Posted 08 April 2009 - 06:00 PM

Windows SCADA systems again, I suppose? Seriously, Personal Computer operating environments shouldn't be used to control the power grid.
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 03:55 PM

until now I thought that things that happened in die hard 4 can't be possible because the engineers surely won't be stupid enough to allow remote control of utilities. What's up with that?
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