Re: [Full-Disclosure] east coast powergrid / SCADA [OT?]

[KF <dotslash@snosoft.com>]

gml wrote:

>Are you saying that Open Source software can save us from power grid
>"cascading failure"?
>
by no means at all... it would however be kinda interesting if blaster 
was the
cause . I was only saying blaster info has my box stuffed 3 times full 
and wanna
hear about something else. The intent was to have a good conversation like
ALudwig@Calfingroup.com has tryed to begin. =]

>  Heh, I sure hope they weren't running any GNU software 
>On anything important. 
>
yeah I would assume backdoors of any sort in SCADA based systems would
be something one would want to pay attention to... be it GNU or M$.

> Actually I heard that it was a lightning strike in
>Canada that hit a transformer and overloaded the grid causing the others to
>Break and that's the problem.  Maybe it's really Canada aboot to start a war
>eh?
>
Quite possible... the city that the plant supposedly hit said "what 
fire... what lightning?"

=]

-KF

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>Subject: [Full-Disclosure] east coast powergrid / SCADA [OT?]
>
>Anyone wanna comment on SCADA and the "cascading failure" that happened 
>today in the north east, like potential for a similar outage from a 
>"cyber based" attack, etc? 
>
>Sorry ... I need to read about something other than blaster before I go 
>insane. =]
>-KF
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