21 Nov
2011
21 Nov
'11
4:51 p.m.
Having worked on plenty of industrial and other control systems I can safely say security on the systems is generally very poor. The vulnerabilities have existed for years but are just now getting attention.
+1 Just for context, let me tell everyone about an operational characteristic of one such system (Sold by a Fortune 10 (almost Fortune 5 ;) company for not a small amt. of $) that might be surprising; the hostname of the server system cannot be longer than eight characters. The software gets so many things so very very wrong I wonder how it is there are not more exploits! ~JasonG