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Infrastructure vulnerable to hacker attacksJól passzol tegnapi felvetésemhez az orosz energiavezetékhálózat elleni támadásoknak való kiszolgáltatottságunk témájában. Illetve támadhatnak nálunk is, Paksot, stb is. Bocs, hogy angol, de tán a többség érti.
"In June 1982, in a remote patch of Russian wilderness, a huge explosion ripped apart a trans-Siberian pipeline.
It wasn't a bomb that destroyed the natural gas pipeline and sent shock waves through the economy of what was then the Soviet Union. Instead, it was a software virus created by the CIA, according to a book by Thomas Reed, a former U.S. Air Force secretary and National Security Council member.
The virus took over the computers controlling valves and pumps, increasing the pressure until the pipeline was ripped apart by a blast equal to 3,000 tons of TNT.
The secret attack was one of the first known hacker strikes on a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, or SCADA, network. Computer security experts say it won't be the last.
Across America and around the world, SCADA networks control nuclear power stations, water and gas lines, chemical plants and other critical infrastructure. Many of them could be just as vulnerable today to attacks from computer hackers — or terrorists — as the Soviet system was nearly 25 years ago.
Or even more vulnerable. That's because in today's Internet age, machines and computers are increasingly connected haphazardly to the Web, whether their owners realize it or not. In addition, there has been rapid growth in easy-to-access wireless networks and the use of off-the-shelf software from Microsoft Corp. and others.
Hence the fear that five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, SCADA networks could become "the new airplanes," said Alan Paller, director of research for the SANS Institute, a computer security research and training group. (...)"
