Security Briefing: August 12th
Author: Dave Lewis
It’s funny to think that there are people out there that think they are SCADA security experts for little other reason than because they say so. FAIL.
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Amen. I’m no SCADA expert, but have talked with enough to identify the good (few) from the pool of the bad (many). It’s where the money’s at right now – not to mention the FUD – so, if you’re in “the biz”, you need to have a “me too” tatoo on your forehead these days it seems.
Pen-Tester: “Look, ma! I fuzzed it and it crashed!”.
Management: “What can you do with it?”
Pen-Tester: “It crashed! I broke SCADA!”
Management: “Yeah, but what can you DO with it…?”
Pen-Tester: “It crashed! I broke SCADA!”
Marketing: “SCADA scary. We expert. Buy us service for you”.
SCADA hacking. So easy a caveman can do it. ™