Keeping Industry Safe From Cyber Attacks
In 2009/2010 one of the most infamous cyber security attacks against an industrial plant took place: the Stuxnet attack. Stuxnet was specifically designed to carry out malicious damage to industrial systems. Allegedly state sponsored, the malicious software attacked industrial control systems (ICSs) used to mange automated industrial processes. Stuxnet's infamy comes from the target, the Iranian nuclear facility, where it damaged a number of centrifuges, leading to a temporary closure of the facility...