Outrage! Panic! Indifference?
Thursday, February 09, 2012Viewed 803 times
How should you react to news of PLC security vulnerabilities?
Project Basecamp was an exercise conducted at the S4 Security Conference that was held last month in Miami, Florida. At the event, six security researchers reported their findings on the security vulnerabilities found after testing several PLCs and field devices from several companies. With relative ease, the security researchers were able to discover, verify and in many cases exploit basic security vulnerabilities such as backdoors, weak or no authentication, buffer overflows, etc.
Dale Peterson of Digital Bond, the organizer of the event, recently blogged asking, “Where is the outrage?” Dale had expected industry to…
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