U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk

U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-09-27

The United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency warned Friday of growing concern about cyber attacks against nuclear facilities.

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-09-28
Anonymous

The usual: firewalls are just a small part of overall security. Use secure operating systems. Implement secure processes. Educate people. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

The best:

"Neither the NRC manual nor the industry guidelines will be made public."

Ohmygod. When will they learn?

'Nuff said....

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-09-29
best of Ideas (2 replies)

Some locations REALLY need *not* to be on the internet.

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-09-30
CyberNuke (1 replies)

Traditional controls and data acquisition / monitoring with analog, stovepipe, and proprietary systems is given way to using networked solutions based on more vulnerable technologies - that risk needs to be managed well. The methodology and specific protection layering technology used need not be ...

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-10-04
Anonymous

Cybernuke,

Secrecy traditionally does not breed adequate security. The best way to generate an effective security guideline is to provide it to all for comment.

The moment review of a security guideline is left to a committee of experts appointed by a government agency, the guideline is much ...

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-10-05
Anonymous

Do You think is it possible ?

I don't think so. I Think that You never saw real BIG network... ...

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-09-29
Stiennon

It would be a really good "guideline" if the NRC suggested that Windows OS's not be used in any sort of control system. Although all other OS's can be argued to have vulnerabilities as well, they are not nearly as likely to be subjected to worms and viruses.

I have talked to manufacturers recently...

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-09-29
GeekGuy

Duh, why is it that people don't learn from mistakes. These systems should be completely air gapped from the Internet or internal networks....

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-09-30
Coldman

This won't prevent from insider's attack... To hack a human is much more simple than to hack a network......

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-09-30
Anonymous (2 replies)

Okay, my only question is why the hell would a nuclear reactor be hooked up to the internet? I worked at a NASA facility for a while that handled proprietary scientific data - that data was handled on a completely seperate, non-internet-connected network so that it was at least secure from remote u...

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-10-03
CyberNuke

Folks have been controlling large coal plants with Windows for years (at least since NT4, SQL)- in general, the isolation measures have been only partially implemented (gotta send graphs to the big cheese, provide engineering access to historical systems beyond a single layer of defense- or not) b...

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2004-10-04
Anonymous

There was no indication that the mentioned network was on the Internet. The infection came from a "partner" network.

The key is that ALL connections to a secure facility, not just Internet connections, must be properly outfitted with appropriate Firewall & Antivirus technologies....

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U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2009-10-09
Kam VanHereweghe (1 replies)

Well, my comment at one point on the flow/control of information eventually going back to "Watergate" days on the bench have now been announced officially by the UN...the world's next major war is to take place in Cyberspace. I mentioned in a previous article somewhere that information will be place...

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Re: U.N. warns of nuclear cyber attack risk 2009-11-10
Kam VanHereweghe

Further example: recently, Tuesday, October 27 6PM a ditcher cut into a major telecommunications line south of Trochu, Alberta, Canada. This singular line cut shut-down multiple communications from: Bell cell phone, Telus Cell phone, home telephone lines, internet access, and Sat. dishes to TV's. Th...

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