At a conference last week discussing the upcoming “Internet of Things”, there was much discussion about the security concerns of connecting infrastructure to the web. SCADA systems have for a while been connected and this story of the hacking of a water pump to destruction was mentioned by a few people.
Turns out to be a 21st century McCarthyesque scare story, that said security is a real issue which needs to be designed in from the ground up in any future machine to machine network.
Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Rus…
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Ed if I may be blunt, we needn’t perpetuate Weiss’ careless bloggage. Andrew