Italian Hacker Publishes 0day SCADA Hacks

mask.of.sanity writes "An Italian security researcher, Luigi Auriemma, has disclosed a laundry list of unpatched vulnerabilities and detailed proof-of-concept exploits that allow hackers to completely compromise major industrial control systems. The attacks work against six SCADA systems, including one manufactured by U.S. giant Rockwell Automation. The researcher published step-by-step exploits that allowed attackers to execute full remote compromises and denial of service attacks. Auriemma appeared unrepentant for the disclosures in a post on his website."

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Re:You cant blame him

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That it's 'in the open' just means that there is an urgency to correct these problems... problem being; that urgency existed prior to public disclosure.

Better to have this information publicly disclosed and subject to scrutiny than the previous system... which involved, apparently, obfuscating or ignoring vulnerabilities or gross incompetence of those responsible for detecting such vulnerabilities.