![]() Industrial control systems have been found to be rife with vulnerabilities, though they manage critical systems in the electric grid, in water treatment plants and chemical facilities and even in hospitals and financial networks. That attack was discovered in 2010, and since then experts have warned that it was only a matter of time before other destructive attacks would occur. and Israel launched against control systems in Iran in late 2007 or early 2008 to sabotage centrifuges at a uranium enrichment plant. ![]() The first case, of course, was Stuxnet, the sophisticated digital weapon the U.S. This is only the second confirmed case in which a wholly digital attack caused physical destruction of equipment. They did so by manipulating and disrupting control systems to such a degree that a blast furnace could not be properly shut down, resulting in "massive"-though unspecified-damage. I'm referring to the revelation, in a German report released just before Christmas (.pdf), that hackers had struck an unnamed steel mill in Germany. Unless you follow security news closely, you likely missed it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amid all the noise the Sony hack generated over the holidays, a far more troubling cyber attack was largely lost in the chaos. ![]()
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