http://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/ Switched Comments for Hacker Consultants Infiltrate Power Grid In Hours http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/http://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/Apr 11th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/http://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/
anytime]]>Apr 11th 2008 11:25AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/http://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/
]]>Apr 11th 2008 11:28AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/http://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/Apr 13th 2008 8:27PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/http://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/
I'm sure foreign entities with cyber-warfare units have already probed many of our vulnerabilities, and are just waiting until hostilities erupt to exploit them. I sure hope that DHS and others are staying on top of this.]]>Apr 11th 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/http://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/
This kind of "Sky Is Falling" article seems to be mostly fear mongering (after all, it's missing significant information and how many readers are really going to call their Congressman without that?). That a hacker achieved entrance is more likely to the utilities IT side, not their system control side. It isn't specified if these "hacker-consultants" were doing intrusion testing, which is a normal part of checking compliance with required operations security, but that is normal and not really "news". Folks who know what they are doing (as in equally capable to the hackers) are working hard to keep them out.
To repeat: Possible? Yes, most anything is possible. Prevalent and widespread? No, the sky is not falling. ]]>Apr 13th 2008 5:47PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/http://www.switched.com/2008/04/11/hacker-consultants-infiltrate-power-grid-in-hours/
I am still troubled by the idea that if even just a small number of plants are vulnerable to an attack, a simultaneous shutdown of them would cascade like in 2003. I hope you can ease my mind on this too.
]]>Apr 15th 2008 6:37PM