That SCADA and industrial control system vulnerabilities are no secret doesn't make them any less concerning. Most worrisome is how little headway the power generation and distribution industry has made to secure the machinery so crucial to our civilization. CSO has covered numerous cases where such systems either came under attack or their vulnerabilities were exposed:
SCADA systems in Australia easy target for malware warns expert
Lack of patching, antivirus on PCs which run SCADA systems need addressing, says security consultant
Important SCADA systems secured using weak logins
Thousands of critical SCADA systems reachable from the Internet are secured by dangerously weak default passwords
Nearly two-dozen bugs easily found in critical infrastructure software
