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Industrial security and SCADA control system security incidents.

Hackers vs Slackers

Hackers are regularly trying to break into the country's key commercial and industrial networks, said the UK government's security minister Lord West of Spithead in August this year. Yet disturbingly, the cyber threat to SCADA systems has been met with laxity and complacency – when it's even acknowledged in the first place....

Yokogawa picks Tofino for industrial firewall

Press coverage of the announcement that the Tofino Industrial Security Solution has been selected by Yokogawa Electric Corporation as its first industrial firewall.....

Hacking no longer child’s play

The days of teenage hobbyist hackers who break into systems just to prove they can do it is over. Today hacking is big business by criminal organizations.....

Schoolboy hacks into city's tram system

A teenage boy who hacked into a Polish tram system used it like "a giant train set", causing chaos and derailing four vehicles. The 14-year-old, described by his teachers as a model pupil and an electronics "genius", adapted a television remote control so it could change track points in the city of Lodz....

Anti-hacker protection for controls passes trials

A technology designed to protect SCADA and other control systems from attacks by hackers and cyber-saboteurs, has successfully completed a programme of beta testing.....

Edge protection a first layer of defense-in-depth security

A technology designed to protect SCADA and other control systems from attacks by hackers and cyber-saboteurs, has successfully completed a programme of beta testing.....

Nuclear plant shut down by network trouble

Operators in Alabama shut down nuclear power plant after networking problems caused water pumps to fail last year....

Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar

A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications....

Safety and security in the world today

In the world today, we are relying more and more on the safety and security of software systems. The traditional view of safety-critical software is that it is concerned with avoiding logic bugs that could cause loss of life, whereas security concerns are about preventing unauthorized access and tampering. But are these two concerns really different?

Hackers break into water system network

An infected laptop PC gave hackers access to computer systems at a Harrisburg, Pa., water treatment plant earlier this month. The plant's systems were accessed in early October after an employee's laptop computer was compromised via the Internet and then used as an entry point to install a computer virus and spyware on the plant's computer system, according to a report by ABC News....

Zotob, PnP worms slam 13 DaimlerChrysler plants

A round of Internet worm infections knocked 13 of DaimlerChryslers U.S. auto manufacturing plants offline for almost an hour in August 2005, stranding some 50,000 auto workers as infected Microsoft Windows systems were patched....

Hacker jailed for revenge sewage attacks

An Australian man was sent to prison for two years after he was found guilty of hacking into the Maroochy Shire, Queensland computerised waste management system and caused millions of litres of raw sewage to spill out into local parks, rivers and even the grounds of a Hyatt Regency hotel....

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