On Nov 21, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
>> 
>> 
> Probably nowhere near that sophisticated.   More like somebody owned the PC 
> running Windows 98 being used as an operator interface to the control system. 
>   Then they started poking buttons on the pretty screen.
> 
> Somewhere there is a terrified 12 year old.
> 
> Please don't think I am saying infrastructure security should not be improved 
> - it really does need help.   But I really doubt this was anything truly 
> interesting.


That's precisely the problem: it does appear to have been an easy attack.
(My thoughts are at 
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2011-11/2011-11-18.html)

                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb






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