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Industrial Control Software Easily Hackable

Posted by Soulskill on from the raise-your-hand-if-you-are-surprised dept.

jfruh writes "CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems from hundreds of vendors, has been revealed to be easily hackable by security researchers, giving rise to a scenario where computer hacking could cross the line into the physical world. Worse, many of these systems are unneccessarily connected to the Internet, which is a terrible, terrible idea."

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  1. Not such a bad idea... by jmerlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Worse, many of these systems are unneccessarily connected to the Internet, which is a terrible, terrible idea.

    Now you're just being paranoid. Instead, you should develop an artificially intelligent system to defeat would-be attackers and malicious software. That sounds like the best idea.

    - Skynet

    1. Re:Not such a bad idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Way ahead of you.

      -Colosus

  2. Re:Yea by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually works better if you read it as 'clown' services.

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    Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!