[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:01:38 GMT
From: "Paul Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [funsec] SCADA Watch: Insider Charged With Hacking California
        Canal   System
To: [email protected]
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Via ComputerWorld.

[snip]

A former employee of a small California canal system has been charged with
installing unauthorized software and damaging the computer used to divert
water from the Sacramento River.

Michael Keehn, 61, former electrical supervisor at the Tehama Colusa Canal
Authority (TCAA) in Willows, Calif., faces 10 years in prison on charges
that he "intentionally caused damage without authorization to a protected
computer," according to Keehn's Nov. 15 indictment. He did this by
installing unauthorized software on the TCAA's Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) system, the indictment states.

Keehn accessed the system on or about Aug. 15, according to the indictment.
He is set to appear in federal court on Dec. 4 to face charges of computer
fraud.

As an electrical supervisor with the authority, he was responsible for
computer systems and is still listed as the contact for the organization's
Web site.

[snip]

More:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art
icleId=9050098

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


That's one way to secure a federal retirement pension - not my preferred way mind you...


Sincerely,

Daniel H. Renner
President
Los Angeles Computerhelp
A division of Computerhelp, Inc.
818-352-8700
http://losangelescomputerhelp.com

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