Information Security News: Citect SCADA vulnerability unlikely

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http://www.industrialit.com.au/articles/Citect-SCADA-vulnerability-unlikely_z174678.htm

Industrial IT
20-June-2008

CITECT has responded to allegations of security problems in its SCADA 
solution by telling customers they are unlikely to be at risk if their 
systems are protected by industry-standard security guidelines.

The potential security breaches found by Core Security Technologies were 
limited to Windows-based control systems utilising ODBC technology. 
However, they were only exploitable if the control systems were 
connected to the Internet without any security in place.

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