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Subject: [ISN] Hacking Critical Infrastructure: A How-To Guide
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2015-07-31 10:26:06
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1507311025550.8133 () infosecnews ! org
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By Patrick Tucker
Defense One
July 31, 2015
Cyber-aided physical attacks on power plants and the like are a growing
concern. A pair of experts is set to reveal how to pull them off — and how
to defend against them.
How easy would it be to pull off a catastrophic cyber attack on, say, a
nuclear power plant? At next week's Black Hat and Def Con cybersecurity
conferences, two security consultants will describe how bits might be used
to disrupt physical infrastructure.
U.S. Cyber Command officials say this is the threat that most deeply
concerns them, according to a recent Government Accountability Office
report. "This is because a cyber-physical incident could result in a loss
of utility service or the catastrophic destruction of utility
infrastructure, such as an explosion," the report said. The most famous
such attack is the 2010 Stuxnet worm, which damaged centrifuges at Iran's
Natanz nuclear enrichment plant. (It's never been positively attributed to
anyone, but common suspicion holds that it was the United States, possibly
with Israel.)
Scheduled to speak at the Las Vegas conferences are Jason Larsen, a
principal security consultant with the firm IOActive, and Marina Krotofil,
a security consultant at the European Network for Cyber Security. Larsen
and Krotofil didn't necessarily hack power plants to prove the exploits
work; instead Krotofil has developed a model that can be used to simulate
power plant attacks. It's so credible that NIST uses it to find weakness
in systems.
[...]
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