Ostrich syndrome revisited. - ferg
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Radvanovsky <[email protected]> Date: Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:04 PM Subject: [SCADASEC] SCADA hack talk canceled after U.S., Siemens request To: [email protected] Rrrrr-iiiiight... URL: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20064112-245.html#ixzz1MkvPiffQ Excerpted from the article: "Two researchers say they canceled a talk at a security conference today on how to attack critical infrastructure systems after U.S. cyber security and Siemens representatives asked them not to discuss their work publicly. "We were asked very nicely if we could refrain from providing that information at this time," Dillon Beresford, an independent security researcher and a security analyst at NSS Labs, told CNET today. "I decided on my own that it would be in the best interest of security ... to not release the information." ... "Dillon was not threatened or prevented from speaking. Rather he made the decision based on the potential negative impact to human life and the fact that the vendor's proposed mitigation had failed," NSS Labs Chief Executive Rick Moy said in an e-mail. "ICS-CERT has done a great job of assisting us with this process and we look forward to Siemens being able to address the issue for their customers." _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please visit: http://news.infracritical.com/mailman/listinfo/scadasec To review our usage policy, please visit: http://www.infracritical.com/usage-scadasec.html -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
