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Offline Marlin

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Hackers Are Targeting Nuclear Facilities, Homeland Security Dept. and F.B.I. Say


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/technology/nuclear-plant-hack-report.html

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Something the industry has been preparing and training for for over 10 years now. I don't know about the rest of you, but this is a low level of concern for me.


Sounds comparable to the "Nigerian Prince" emails of the late 90's early 00's.






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Hackers wrote highly targeted email messages containing fake résumés for control engineering jobs and sent them to the senior industrial control engineers who maintain broad access to critical industrial control systems, the government report said.


The fake résumés were Microsoft Word documents that were laced with malicious code. Once the recipients clicked on those documents, attackers could steal their credentials and proceed to other machines on a network.

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At my 'yousta' plant, the IT dept would send us fishing emails  monthly, and fire anyone who fell for it.

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At my 'yousta' plant, the IT dept would send us fishing emails  monthly, and fire anyone who fell for it.

We get those from time to time.  No firings so far, but the red faces have become far fewer as people recognize what to look for.
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The headlines are written for the scare-factor, shocking no one on this forum.

Buried deep in the articles are the statements that none of the actual plant command and control functions are physically connected to the outside, therefore shielded by another layer of protection from hacking.

But honest, fact based and truthful statements don't get people to click on your articles  :o :)

 


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