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Leadership Focus Podcast: Cyber Security

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Submitted by kbonfante on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 14:53.

Each year the damage to critical infrastructure
from network incidentsand cyber attacks is measured
in the billions of dollars.

Traci Purdum, senior digital editor, talks
to Eric Byres, chief technology officer of Byres
Security Inc., to understand the risks and learn
how to mitigate them.

From 'Unfettered Blog'

Buggy smart meters can infect the Smart Grid

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Submitted by waltboyes on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 15:34.

In a report published June 12th, Register.com's Dan Goodin reports, "The newfangled meters needed to make the smart grid work are built on buggy software that's easily hacked, said Mike Davis, a senior security consultant for IOActive. The vast majority of them use no encryption and ask for no authentication before carrying out sensitive functions such as running software updates and severing customers from the power grid. The vulnerabilities, he said, are ripe for abuse."

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Wurldtech and Matrikon declare alliance for cyber security

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Submitted by waltboyes on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 13:32.

The combining and recombining in the functional security world is beginning to look like a test tube full of recombinant DNA as companies jockey for the ability to offer a completely integrated security solution. Here's Wurldtech and Matrikon's latest effort:

MatrikonOPC & Wurldtech Announce Cooperative Agreement To Deliver Achilles Certified OPC Software

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We don't got to show you no steenkin' critical assets!

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Submitted by waltboyes on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 19:49.

Here's a guide to the grid from NPR. US Power PlantsUS Power PlantsIt makes you wonder, doesn't it, how the electric utilities can have so few critical assets. I would think that most of those big splotches of red in the Southeastern United States where there are so many power plants that the resolution of the map can't show them all would be critical assets, but apparently, not so.

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