On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 13:14 -0500, Joel R. Helgeson wrote: > Are you scared yet? > > [snip] http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/653079/ > > Global Secure Systems, the specialist IT security consultants and system > integrators, has warned that hackers can now destroy hardware systems, as > well as software. > > David Hobson, Managing Director at GSS, said that a US government video of a > power station generator, released to the media earlier this week, clearly > shows what can happen when hackers take over control of a turbine system. > > "The Department of Homeland Security video shows a mock-up of an industrial > turbine taken over by hackers and destroyed by turning it into a heap of > smoking metal," he said. > > "This is what can happen to your company's hardware if a hacker gains > access. We're not talking about a software crash - which is bad enough - > we're talking about real physical damage," he added. > [snip] > > Real physical damage can be done only if your system is mechanical tied to > an unsecured computer subsystem. > > This is so naively stupid I could rant for hours...
Not really. They can remotely destroy a floppy in your drive agressively moving the head for hours! Reminds me of this rather old article: http://newengland.naisg.org/Archive/2004/05Graphics/computer_bomb.jpg -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
