Re: [foxboro] Windsnows Question

  • From: Jeremy Milum <jmilum@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:25:17 -0500

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:37 PM, m.d. <mdaatje@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And remember. The system is work tool for the operator. If they break it they 
> can't operate
> the plant properly. Its just common sense. Nobody walking around through a 
> plant is just
> playing around with (hand) valves and/or power switches. So why should they 
> do it in
> control room?

Security threats happen far more often from within than they do from without.

If I were a BadGuy (TM) and wanted to take something out with a nasty
virus, lets say a budding spandex plant in Outer Mongolia. I would
find out who worked there (which would be fairly easy) and target all
those guys instead of the plant. They would have much, much weaker
defenses. But the plant would also have much, much weaker defenses
against them. So if I start friending them on facebook, twitter,
linkedin, with multiple fake profile and get them infected with the
nasty virus that lays dormant for a while. Some of them will take USB
drives (if that's my vector) into the plant to show of that big fish
they caught. and that's all I need...

I'm not a BadGuy (TM), but they are out there...

-- 
Jeremy
 
 
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