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Sunday, December 15, 2019

Hacking Nuclear Plants

Good reason for very strict identification policies.  And in the meantime,  just keeping some things off the Net.

How a nuclear plant got hacked
Plugging nuclear plants into the internet makes them vulnerable targets for nation-state attack.
    
J.M. PorupBy J.M. Porup in CSOOnline

If you think attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime, you'd be right, but spies from countries around the world are fighting a silent, dirty war to pre-position themselves on civilian infrastructure — like energy-producing civilian nuclear plants — to be able to commit sabotage during a moment of geopolitical tension.

What follows is an explanation of how India's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) got hacked — and how it could have been easily avoided  .... " 

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