November 18, 2014

Cyber Attacks on SCADA systems threaten to Destroy modern life infrastructure


SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a system operating with coded signals over communication channels so as to provide control of remote equipment (using typically one communication channel per remote station).

If you remember Stuxnet which the Israelis created to spin Iranian centrifuges out of control.

Stuxnet's design and architecture are not domain-specific and it could be tailored as a platform for attacking modern SCADA and PLC systems.




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