Hacking critical infrastructure systems now as easy as pushing a button?
Remember Firesheep . . . the addon that was so easy to use that even the clueless could successfully hack Facebook and Twitter accounts via Wi-Fi? In some scarier than your average security news, thanks to several Program Logic Controllers (PLC) exploits that were added to Metasploit today, "hacking SCADA systems can be push of a button easy," tweeted HD Moore, CSO of Rapid7 and Chief Architect of Metasploit.
SCADA as in our critical infrastructure like chemical manufacturing plants or the electric grid. This is all stemming from the news pouring out of the 2012 SCADA Security Scientific Symposium (#S4ics) where this morning's two hour S4 Project Basecamp presentation by Reid Wightman resulted in what Digital Bond hopes "will be a Firesheep moment for PLC's."
