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Security Hole Exposes Utilities To Internet Attack

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Security experts discovered a hole in the software that controls our nations water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other utilities. The flaw could allow attackers to gain control of these critical systems but, not to worry, the people that discovered the problem handled it responsibly and reported it months ago so it could be fixed before they went public.

Experts with Boston-based Core Security Technologies, who discovered the deficiency and described it exclusively to The Associated Press before they issued a security advisory, said there's no evidence anyone else found or exploited the flaw. Citect Pty. Ltd., which makes the program called CitectSCADA, patched the hole last week, five months after Core Security first notified Citect of the problem.
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xX_Jack_Carver_Xx said:
We are all gonna die. :eek::rolleyes::p
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Not as a direct cases of this but maybe indirectly. Lose of utilities takes us back to how it was 200 years ago. Without WoW millions go crazy and start to kill people for real. Other kill themself due to a lack of porn and/or myspace.
 
Why are PCs on a SCADA or CJIS network allowed to even touch the internet? No Internet access means it'd have to be an inside job to take over IE or a PC.
 
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