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What does a flightless bird and SCADA software have in common?

A new security firm has discovered vulnerabilities in SCADA software and decided not to inform the affected vendors, but rather sell the information privately to their customers. The first exploitable 0day took a mere 7 minutes to discover from the time the software was installed. SCADA systems run things like power plants, airports, manufacturing facilities, and so on (read the wikipedia page for more info) The most difficult part of finding SCADA vulnerabilities seems to be locating the software itself. The most interesting thing about these bugs was how trivial they were to find.”]

Source: http://blog.exodusintel.com/2012/11/25/what-does-a-flightless-bird-and-scada-software-have-in-common/

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