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Why power plants need anti-virus
John Leyden, The Register 2005-03-17

Utility companies are been urged to review cyber security risks as the industry moves over from proprietary technologies to cheaper Windows-based systems. Attendees at an Industrial Cyber Security Conference in London on Tuesday 15 March were told that the control systems of utilities are becoming open to the kinds of attacks that bedevil corporate systems, such as computer worms and DDoS attacks, as power and water companies embrace the net.

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Complete Control ..... 2005-03-25
Anonymous
Been possible for a long time. Many -have- been connected to the Internet. However, they tend to use obscure proprietary protocols. Anyhow, the issue of taking down a single power plant is not that detrimental. I believe that the NE US brownout that occurred during the summer of 2003 showed that. Th...

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