September 28, 2007

US test cyber vulnerability

The Department of Homeland Security have been investigating the dangers that a cyber attack could have on a “Real World” situation. The test which was conducted by the Idaho National Laboratory was conducted to test certain systems in key installations, like power plants etc.

The “Attack” took place on a power station, by hacking into a flaw of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems which control chemical, water and electric plants throughout the United States. As a result a turbine was destroyed, but how is not known.

The flaw has now been fixed, but there are those people out there that say it could not have happened in the first place, a fact that we will never know, unless the real thing actually happens.

Source [Wired]

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