Vulnerabilities Discovered In Prison SCADA Systems

phaedrus5001 writes with an excerpt from an Ars Technica article: "Researchers have demonstrated a vulnerability in the computer systems used to control facilities at federal prisons that could allow an outsider to remotely take them over, doing everything from opening and overloading cell door mechanisms to shutting down internal communications systems. ... The researchers began their work after [John] Strauchs was called in by a warden to investigate an incident in which all the cell doors on one prison's death row spontaneously opened."

Comments

Re:Uh oh

[Anonymous Coward]

Really, you're going to try this on Slashdot? Wow. As if enough of us don't tell our concerned aunts to avoid that website like the plague, already.

1 - Don't connect shit like this to the internet

[Spy Handler]

2 - don't allow employees to stick their usb drives in work computers
      Or,
run Linux
      Or,
disable Autorun in Windows

3. problem solved

Now pay me my $80,000 in consulting fee (minus the 40% that will be kicked back to the prison guard union of course)