[Dailydave] Mmm, all your power belongs to some random dude.

[Dave Aitel]

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If you haven't seen the hackers owning your power yet, this article
should be fun to read. Definitely interesting for next week's S4
conference on SCADA security:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jSw3W7MyNAF7rq8RTxcvoz76WIiwD8U8GUP02

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers literally turned out the lights in multiple
cities after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding
extortion payments before disrupting the power, a senior CIA analyst
told utility engineers at a trade conference.

All the break-ins occurred outside the United States, said senior CIA
analyst Tom Donahue. The U.S. government believes some of the hackers
had inside knowledge to cause the outages. Donahue did not specify
what countries were affected, when the outages occurred or how long
the outages lasted. He said they happened in "several regions outside
the United States."

"In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting
multiple cities," Donahue said in a statement. "We do not know who
executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the
Internet."
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