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Hackers Targeting US Nuclear Power Plants, Report Finds (cnet.com)
For the past couple of months, hackers have breached the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power facilities in the US, according to a new report from federal law enforcement officials. From a report: One of the companies targeted was the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, which operates a nuclear facility near Burlington, Kansas, according to a joint report issued last week by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security and described by The New York Times. The report carried an urgent amber warning, the second-highest rating for the severity of the threat, the Times reported. Organizations running the nation's energy, nuclear and other critical infrastructure have become frequent targets for cyberattacks in recent years. In a 2013 executive order, President Barack Obama called cyberattacks "one of the most serious national security challenges we must confront."
Headline says the power plants were targeted, summary says the companies were targeted.
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"There is no indication of a threat to public safety, as any potential impact appears to be limited to administrative and business networks,” the government agencies said."
Zero Cool isn't fucking with the control rods of a reactor from his mom's basement. This is just another intrusion of an organization with poor security.
control rods just need some hitting Y on vent gas all day long.
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The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
"one of the most serious national security challenges we must confront."
I imagine Trump will be signing an executive order to say we have nothing to worry from cyber attacks.
TAIA?
Okay this is not really that new. The tech community knews this was going on for sometime since power companies (for some crazy reason) are internet accessible. Even in the Snowden movie it was shown that the CIA was getting into power plants and hospitals of allies (now semi-allies?) for the purposes of "pressure" if they took actions the CIA decided it didn't like. So of course we've been targeted. Was probably one of the earlier targeted industries since the cyberwar with other countries started.
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Are the control systems at plants not isolated from the outside world?
If not, why not?
It seems obvious that they should be.
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As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet ?
Is the US government, under its various organs doing anything similar - or even bankrolling any entity abroad given what we've learned (thorough Wikileaks) over the last few months?
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I remember back in the early 2000s hearing about hacker threats to key infrastructure like power plants, water filtration, and the like. The solution then is if you don't air gap your mission critical systems, you're an idiot and shouldn't be in a job.
How is 2017 any different to then and why is "muh Russia" the most shouted phrase while happily ignoring China, Israel, Pakistan, and well every other country with a vested interest in national and corporate espionage?
interface at a Nuke Plant?
Have person monitor the interface user calls passes ID interface is turned up user logs in drops network when done and person turns interface down.
No you cant email and facebook at work.
it's cheaper to have them internet accessible. That's the basic problem with nuclear power. It's perfectly safe if you take all necessary precautions. But sooner or later some small government types come in, convince everyone they can cut their taxes by being every so much more efficient as a private company, take over and find running a nuke plant is _hard_. Like, really hard; and finally they start cutting corners and running the plants longer than they're supposed to.
Until you can convince upwards to 90% of the population that having a nuclear power plant run by the lowest bidder is a bad idea I'm gonna oppose nuclear.
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I think I've seen this same misleading bullshit article title literally once a month since 9/11/01.
So the administrative (read: Windows) network got some malware at a nuke plant? Shocking. I'd honestly think I'd be more shocked if the headline said that a nuclear facility had never gotten its Windows network breached, because I've never seen one that hasn't been.
Now, if the article showed that someone was fucking with the reactors or other critical systems, I'd be worried. But every article for the last 16 years has always been this same kind of clickbait garbage.
I get a few fishing emails a day that make it through the spam filter. No where in the linked article is there any evidence of anything different than the spam i get which is the same as anyone gets.
Sure some may be more akin to spear phishing but its hardly a national emergency. Don't open attachments from random people on the internet. If your responsible for a nuclear power plant, be even more cautious!
Common sense, nothing to write an article about, which trump will then read and do something half assed and stupid because of. Can we cut down on the sensationalism in this age of knee jerk, no information foreign policy please? Poor journalism and tweets may end up being the cause of ww3, which is the saddest thought I have had all week.
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By now nobody trusts a REAL secret to US-designed information technology. We slowly replace your craptastic stuff with Alternative, Sound Engineering.
Like this: https://github.com/DiplIngFrankGerlach/SicherHttpd
...we have learned to love our FOREST again. Much more honest than your "civilization". Our ants, our weasels, our crows, our eagles. They are our allies against the Zuckerberg/Brin/Gates/Bell Labs/NSA Dreck.
The animals of our forests can keep secrets and they cannot be fully bugged like the electronics you dump into Europe from China and America.
That was only one of the vectors.
You should really read the literature. They also used other vectors, and while they show a USB stick on the vector line, not all of them were via USB. Sometimes it came in loaded on Lexmark printers.
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You don't see them going after wind or solar, because those technologies aren't dangerous like nuclear. I know Slashdot has a number of nuclear shills that post on here, but the energy industry is moving away from nuclear. Nuclear is a dead technology, get over it!!
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"hackers have breached the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power facilities in the US"
That is not the same thing as "hackers have breached the computer networks of nuclear power facilities."
And whomever put this FAKE NEWS together probably considers "omg I did a Whois and got an IP address of their webserver!" to be hacking.
FAKE NEWS.
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All the people saying control systems weren't affected seem too unconcerned about the long game. The hackers undoubtedly have better kompromat opportunities for deeper and better attacks now. An air-gapped system doesn't protect you when an employee has been blackmailed, bought, or duped.
stop trying to sabotage european, russian, and asian computer networks, industry, manufacturing plants etc. and they won't do the same to you. You literally asked for it.
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