We mentioned earlier that one major electrical blackout was likely a result of hacking.
There could be lots more. And they might be water- or sewer- or natural-gas failures.
Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday
...the vulnerability could have counterparts in other so-called supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems.
The attack-method is simple: buffer-overflow.
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