Re: Reuters: Power Outage Not Internet Worm-Related

["Geoff Shively" <gshively () pivx com>]

Regardless... Paller says that he does not think the systems for SCADA and
DCS
running our critical infrastructure controls are using Windows... this is
FALSE, and there
are many documents to prove that Windows is what they are running
(majority).

Cheers,

Geoff Shively, CHO
PivX Solutions, LLC

http://www.pivx.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Tancsa" <mike () sentex net>
To: "Jason Sloderbeck" <ops-lists () positivenetworks net>;
<full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Reuters: Power Outage Not Internet
Worm-Related


> At 01:47 PM 18/08/2003 -0400, Jason Sloderbeck wrote:
>
> > "it is 'highly unlikely' that the process control computers behind
> > critical infrastructure like power in the United States would run on the
> > Windows operating system."
>
> <begin PURE SPECULATION>
> One way it might be related is if the "alarms that were ignored" were
> supposed to be displayed on a windows workstation which was then taken out
> by the worm.
> </end PURE SPECULATION>
>
>          ---Mike
>
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