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More than 500,000 control devices are vulnerable to Internet attacks
Cyber-security researchers have found more than 500,000 control devices with direct connections to the Internet that could be used to attack them and the systems they control. The unnamed researchers have reported their findings to the US Government’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).
The researchers found the potentially vulnerable systems using the Shodan search engine and searching for control-systems-related terms such as Scada (supervisory control and data acquisition). The researchers are worried that cyber-attackers could use the search engine in a similar way as a shortcut to finding vulnerable control systems and thus threaten or attack critical infrastructure.
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http://www.drives.co.uk/fullstory.asp?id=3659
