16 August 2011

Mediocre hackers can cause major damage | #stuxnet #plc #hackers

The computer systems that control vital industrial machinery in nuclear power plants, water treatment facilities and many other factories are vulnerable to deadly sabotage by hackers with even moderate skills, security researchers say.

Dillon Beresford, who works for security firm NSS Labs, showed at a security conference in Las Vegas how he had successfully hacked into special computer systems that are made by Siemens and other companies and are used in thousands of industrial plants.

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