Submitted by Eric Byres on Tue, 2010-08-31 15:33
One of the best things about the whole Stuxnet worm fiasco is that it has brought one of the biggest security issues – the use and abuse of passwords – into focus. Currently most of the discussion has focused on Siemens’ unfortunate use of fixed default passwords in their products (for example, see Joe Weiss’ post on http://news.infracritical.com/pipermail/scadasec/2010-August/001756.html).