https://blog.polaris64.net/tags/security/ Recent content in Security on Polaris64's blog Hugo en-uk Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:34:42 +0100 https://blog.polaris64.net/post/scadas-scarce-security/ Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.polaris64.net/post/scadas-scarce-security/ Yesterday, BBC news reported that a “hacker” had allegedly destroyed a pump in the Illinois water treatment system. Apparently, this person had managed to gain access to the system and break the pump by repeatedly turning it off and on. This attack on a SCADA system (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) follows a similar attack earlier this year by the Stuxnet virus which appeared to target the Siemens SCADA system of the Uranium nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran.