It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
(visit the link for the full news article)
A group of researchers has discovered serious security holes in six top industrial control systems used in critical infrastructure and manufacturing facilities and, thanks to exploit modules they released on Thursday, have also made it easy for hackers to attack the systems before they’re patched or taken offline.
Originally posted by whatsinaname
........
when did january turn into hack the planet? I have a bad feeling about all this...
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by brill
In my mind that is a serious criminal act or should be. Anything that comes of it should lead to at the least massive civil suits by anyone negatively impacted, if not serious felony charges.
Originally posted by brill
Skiddies (script kiddies) and exploitation of critical infrastructure is a sound blend. People are up in arms of the DoJ, MegaUpload and RIAA, etc. being down but wait till SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems are impacted. Add Stuxnet or Duqu to the equation and you have the potential for serious disorder. The release is integrated into the popular hacker toolkit called Metasploit.
The debate has now turned again as to whether the release of such knowledge and material should have been made public prior to giving vendors an opportunity to address the problems.
Vulnerability Matrix
brill
www.wired.com
(visit the link for the full news article)edit on 19-1-2012 by brill because: (no reason given)edit on 19-1-2012 by brill because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by korathin
The researches responsible should be in jail. But at the least they will probably be sued into oblivion for gross negligence if something bad happens as a result. Because as some have already stated the data they released has already been added to hacker tool kits.
It would be no different if researches released a list of vulnerable US targets overseas(with details of how to exploit their vulnerabilities) and enemies of the USA used that information to target them.
They went far beyond their 1st Amendment rights when they released the information on how to exploit. If they would of said X systems are vulnerable and give a brief(but lacking in depth) explanation of why they are vulnerable.
But what they did went far beyond that and blatantly ventured into enabling hacking, electronic terrorism, of the vulnerable systems.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by brill
In my mind that is a serious criminal act or should be. Anything that comes of it should lead to at the least massive civil suits by anyone negatively impacted, if not serious felony charges.