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Originally Posted by SteamWake
Siemens SCADA systems are hardly 'well protected' or at least they werent. I dont think they foresaw this as an issue.
I recently had a discussion over communications protocal for a domestic water supply system. I boiled down to hardwired RS232 or wireless ethernet. The wireless is of course much cheaper and easier to program and maintain but has obvious security risks. These risks were pointed out. The end results? The cheaper route.
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If I would think too long about our cybersecurity of powerplants and powergrids, hospitals, industrial infrastructure, communication networks, etc, I would not find any sleep anymore. I really think that a determined and competent attacker with the needed ressources could completely shut down our complete systems and infrastructure and destroy them without needing to drop a single bomb. It is a nightmare scenario. I once heared an expert on cyber-warfare comparing it to the impact of a killer meteorit that affects all the globe.
Our world is more complex than ever before. And it is more vulnerable than ever before.