June 2, 2016
One of the most vulnerable sectors to cyber attacks is power and utility. There are many security professionals who think that large area blackout such as those that occurred overseas and a few years ago in Manhattan, are individuals and/or groups testing their ability to take down these systems.
Every few months (unless there is some major outage) the topic of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems comes up. This month an article lends a little more information and clarity to this threat.