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Selfie-posting power grid workers are inadvertently exposing critical information

Sean McBride, senior threat intelligence analyst at iSight Partners, says hes found similarly cringe-worthy selfies on Instagram and Facebook that reveal details of SCADA systems. SCADA is a system for remote monitoring and control that operates with coded signals over communication channels that include the internet. The creators of the Stuxnet malware are said to have relied on an image of a SCADA control system monitor to figure out the configuration of the facility’s centrifuges. McBride says that SCADA selfies could unwittingly reveal critical information that operators would prefer to keep secret.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/01/20/selfie-posting-power-grid-workers-are-inadvertently-exposing-critical-information/

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