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Following is a list of publicly available articles and publications about industrial cyber security, breaches and attacks, and other related events.

 

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America’s Hackable Backbone

 The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant's owners claimed, that their critical components could be accessed from the Internet. Lunsford, a researcher for IBM's Internet Security Systems, found otherwise. "It turned out to be one of the easiest penetration more
 

Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies

   WASHINGTON -- Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials. The spies came from China, Russia and other countries, these officials said, and were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S. electrical more
 

Hole Found in Protocol Handling Vital National Infrastructure

 Systems that control dams, oil refineries, railroads and nuclear power plants have a vulnerability that could cause a system takeover, according to a recent research report. Researchers on March 21 announced that the systems which control dams, oil refineries, railroads and nuclear power more
 

New focus on cyber-terrorism (Aug. 05)

 Buried deep in America's new energy legislation is a requirement that power companies step up their safeguards against computer attack. Why does a law aimed at boosting energy production address the dangers of hackers, software "worms," and computer viruses? Because the automatic networks that run so-called "critical infrastructure" more
 

A Quantitative Study of Firewall Configuration Errors

 The protection that firewalls provide is only as good as the policy they are configured to implement. Analysis of real configuration data shows that corporate firewalls are often enforcing rule sets that violate well-established security guidelines. Firewalls are the cornerstone of corporate intranet security. Once a company acquires a firewall, more
 

Potential Vulnerability of Plant Computer Network to Worm Infection

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