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Inside the rickety, vulnerable systems that run just about every power plant

The Stuxnet worm was a weapon used by the U.S. and perhaps the Israelis to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. But the ways that attacks like it can still succeed against industrial infrastructure may alarm and unsettle you. The truth has less to do with the skills of the attackers and more with the rickety state of our industrial control systems, says expert. The industry’s hopes lie in the new and improved OPC-UA standard, but in practice innumerable industrial facilities are still using OPC running on Windows XP.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2905402/inside-the-rickety-vulnerable-systems-that-run-just-about-every-power-plant.html

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