Current Events > Hackers are targeting American nuclear power plants

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/technology/nuclear-plant-hack-report.html

This type of hacking is expensive, so it's probably a government-backed attack.

I'm glad that we have intelligent, knowledgeable people in charge at this particular moment, and I trust them to handle this situation with aplomb.
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I don't understand

How do you "hack" a nuclear plant
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NuclearPlant.StartMeltdown();

Our botched attack on Iran really set the stage for this, iirc.
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Doe posted...

I don't understand

How do you "hack" a nuclear plant

Downloading the energy to power their hacking computers.
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Iirc American utility has terrible cyber security
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Enter command > /hack
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This seems not good, imo.
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Doe posted...

I don't understand

How do you "hack" a nuclear plant

You gain access to computers on the plant's network. In this case they did that using malicious word documents and attacking sites that people on the network were known to visit.
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Blo posted...

I'm glad that we have intelligent, knowledgeable people in charge at this particular moment, and I trust them to handle this situation with aplomb.

Trump signed an executive order to bolster our national cyber security.

Antifar posted...

This seems not good, imo.

No shit, Sherlock.

Good thing we put out that US Navy commercial to scare Villians without a face from hacking us.
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they are going to use the plants to download ever MORE ram

my god
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Mr. Burns will stay on top of this and release the hounds if necessary.
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Clad posted...

Blo posted...

I'm glad that we have intelligent, knowledgeable people in charge at this particular moment, and I trust them to handle this situation with aplomb.

Trump signed an executive order to bolster our national cyber security.

maybe he wishes the entire White House Science department wasn't vacated about now
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I would be simultaneously shocked and not at all surprised if Nuclear plants could be operated remotely.

NuclearPlant.StartMeltdown();

Lmao
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The scary thing about this, is that as shown with the Stuxnet attack on Iran, you wouldn't even know something is wrong. The whole plant could be priming to blow, and all the digitally controlled instruments would read back "all clear."
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The scary thing about this, is that as shown with the Stuxnet attack on Iran, you wouldn't even know something is wrong. The whole plant could be priming to blow, and all the digitally controlled instruments would read back "all clear."

Also Stuxnet proved that even if you have no nwtwork connection whatsoever, they can still get you. A pretty significant portion of flash drives in the world were thought to be infected, though of course it does nothing whatsoever to all but the target machine... they think.
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How? Wouldn't Power Plants be a closed network? >_>
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Dr. Jill Stein has retreated into her bunker.
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We should build more walls around the plants
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SoraOwnsOctopus posted...

How? Wouldn't Power Plants be a closed network? >_>

A lot of nukes don't even use the internet whatsoever. There's a lot of really old tech in nukes around here that I've worked in. At least I know I have nothing to worry about in Pittsburgh :)
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Twinmold posted...

The scary thing about this, is that as shown with the Stuxnet attack on Iran, you wouldn't even know something is wrong. The whole plant could be priming to blow, and all the digitally controlled instruments would read back "all clear."

We don't need to worry about that because our shit isn't vulnerable in the same way Iran's shit was.

Blo posted...

I'm glad that we have intelligent, knowledgeable people in charge at this particular moment, and I trust them to handle this situation with aplomb.

He'll get Barron on the case ASAP. He's great with the cyber.
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OpheliaAdenade posted...

He'll get Barron on the case ASAP. He's great with the cyber.

"Ohh~ Barron-sempai~~"
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OpheliaAdenade posted...

Blo posted...

I'm glad that we have intelligent, knowledgeable people in charge at this particular moment, and I trust them to handle this situation with aplomb.

He'll get Barron on the case ASAP. He's great with the cyber.

Barron is The Expert.
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geez, why don't they target the north koreans instead

Blo posted...

I'm glad that we have intelligent, knowledgeable people in charge at this particular moment, and I trust them to handle this situation with aplomb.

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We don't need to worry about that because our s*** isn't vulnerable in the same way Iran's s*** was.

Stuxnet is no joke.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

It engineered four different vulnerabilities zero-day attacks--that is attacks that have never been used before, so nobody had ever heard of (meaning nobody could have defended against them), and because the target machine had no network capability whatsoever, it spread by installing itself on every drive it came into contact with, including flash drives, which travel from computer to computer, and spreading itself via any attached local network. Despite infecting millions of drives, it wasn't discovered until long after its release.

Long story short, there is no defense. Not unless the only way information is given to the target machine is by some guy typing it in on a keyboard.
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DevsBro posted...

We don't need to worry about that because our s*** isn't vulnerable in the same way Iran's s*** was.

Stuxnet is no joke.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

It engineered four different vulnerabilities zero-day attacks--that is attacks that have never been used before, so nobody had ever heard of (meaning nobody could have defended against them), and because the target machine had no network capability whatsoever, it spread by installing itself on every drive it came into contact with, including flash drives, which travel from computer to computer, and spreading itself via any attached local network. Despite infecting millions of drives, it wasn't discovered until long after its release.

Long story short, there is no defense. Not unless the only way information is given to the target machine is by some guy typing it in on a keyboard.

Stuxnet would not work in American facilities

DevsBro posted...

We don't need to worry about that because our s*** isn't vulnerable in the same way Iran's s*** was.

Stuxnet is no joke.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

It engineered four different vulnerabilities zero-day attacks--that is attacks that have never been used before, so nobody had ever heard of (meaning nobody could have defended against them), and because the target machine had no network capability whatsoever, it spread by installing itself on every drive it came into contact with, including flash drives, which travel from computer to computer, and spreading itself via any attached local network. Despite infecting millions of drives, it wasn't discovered until long after its release.

Long story short, there is no defense. Not unless the only way information is given to the target machine is by some guy typing it in on a keyboard.

The defense is finding and reporting such vulnerabilities before they can be used for malicious purposes.
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Of course not. It's designed for Iranian ones. And what's more, the US (probably) developed it, so they know how to defend against it.

But it set the precedent. Those were not the only four vulnerabilities, and all vulnerabilities are zero day on day zero.
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The defense is finding and reporting such vulnerabilities before they can be used for malicious purposes.

If it's that simple, get on it.
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