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Subject:    [ISN] Stuxnet-like attacks beckon as 50 new Scada threats
From:       InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date:       2011-04-22 8:45:45
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.1104220345370.18809 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2045556/stuxnet-attacks-beckon-scada-threats-discovered

By Phil Muncaster
V3.co.uk
21 Apr 2011

Cyber criminals appear to be ramping up their interest in industrial 
control systems after research from application security management firm 
Idappcom found 52 new threats in March targeted at supervisory control 
and data acquisition (Scada) systems of the sort hit by the infamous 
Stuxnet worm.

Tony Haywood, chief technology officer at Idappcom, told V3.co.uk that 
hackers could be going for the systems as they are typically less well 
defended than more mainstream public facing IT systems.

Scada systems are typically found in a variety of industrial plants 
ranging from water and waste treatment to food and pharmaceuticals and 
even nuclear power plants.

As such, they play a vital role in the monitoring and production of key 
products and services, and could represent an attractive target for 
hacktivists seeking notoriety, or cyber criminals looking to extort 
money by threatening to disrupt the systems.

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