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News Hackers tap into local essential services

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Secuobs.com : 2012-08-07 07:03:35 - SecurityTube.Net - The warning comes less than two weeks after Australia experienced one of its most serious recent hacking events It occurred on July 25, when self-styled hacking group Anonymous stole and later published individual, corporate and government customer records belonging to internet provider AAPT The stolen data included AAPT client records for some of Australia's best-known institutions, such as the Reserve Bank, Australian Federal Police, Australian Securities Investments Commission and the Australian Crime Commission Experts said this episode paled in comparison with the possible catastrophe should hackers home in on internet-connected industrial systems that control everything from power, gas, water and sewerage systems to traffic, lifts, oil and gas pipeline flows, wind farms, airports and ships IMAGE

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