>>stuxnet worm Ha ha.. no. I used to work for Siemens and am familiar with the controls that were affected by stuxnet. It was extremely well targeted at a particular PC control system that had to be connected to a particular PLC model.. the virus identified the hardware and reported back to a central command and then tweaked the software in the PLC to overspeed the centrifuges via a specific VFD drive that was attached, while suppressing process alarms. Very, very elaborate. Whoever did that must have spent man-years worth of time developing that virus. Stuxnet did hit some refineries though as that PC based system was very popular in process control plants. But I think most of the other infections were not a real problem, just mega embarrassing to Siemens.
Dave On 3/12/2012 8:26 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Peter Blodow wrote: > >> Jon, >> on the other hand: I once had to scare the boys in the workshop away >> from the € 300,000 Deckel-Gildemeister maching center because they were, >> indeed, watching a pirate movie in the CNC mill's LCD screen in the noon >> break... >> >> > Ummm, there ought to be a way to disable the browser, or at least disable > the movie media players! Shhesh, hope it doesn't have Siemens controls, > aren't they the subject of the stuxnet worm? > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
