Control Systems a New “Bull’s-eye” for Hackers

Automation World (Iversen) - The Stuxnet worm that attacked Siemens SCADA and control systems is highly sophisticated, and should be a wake-up call for the industrial controls community, say security experts.

We’ve always been ‘collateral damage,’ as control system owners and operators. We just sort of get hit by the viruses as they go by, for the most part,” Byres added. “But now, we’re in the bull’s-eye. Whoever wrote this, wrote it specifically to go after the SCADA and control systems world. So they understand what they’re going after, and we’re no longer able to hide behind ‘security by obscurity' ...