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Homeland Security Warns: Hackers Can Break Into System Used to Manage Military Movements, Elevators, Videocams... MORE
The Department of Homeland Security today warned that a popular system used by organizations around the world to manage millions of machines and devices over the Internet is vulnerable to attack from hackers.

The software system known as the Niagara Framework enables corporate, military, health-care and other users to remotely control or monitor medical devices, elevators, video cameras, security systems and a wide array of other sensitive operations.

In an alert issued Friday, cybersecurity officials said that Niagara users should immediately prohibit guest users, bolster passwords, cut off direct access to the Internet and take other steps to prevent hackers from exploiting configuration and software flaws.

“Disable the ‘guest’ and ‘demo’ user accounts if enabled,” says the alert, issued by the department’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team. The alert advised other steps:

-Lock out accounts that receive excessive invalid login attempts.

-Use stronger passwords.

-Change default user names and passwords.

-Limit user access to the file system.

The alert follows a Washington Post report yesterday that described Niagara and the vulnerabilities, which were discovered by two security specialists who work as “white hat” hackers, Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle. The system is vulnerable to a “directory traversal attack,” a well-known technique among hackers, the alert said. The attack could enable an intruder to access files containing user names and passwords.

Last week, Niagara’s maker, Richmond-based Tridium, privately warned customers about security problems. Yesterday, months after the firm was first notified of the issues, Tridium released a public alert.

Officials at DHS said they had delayed issuing a warning to allow Tridium to work on fixes.

[link to www.washingtonpost.com]
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Re: Homeland Security Warns: Hackers Can Break Into System Used to Manage Military Movements, Elevators, Videocams... MORE
Sounds like another excuse to be used for the Feds to completely take over the internet.

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Hello Skynet!
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Hello Skynet!
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yep
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Well this is just fantastic.
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Well this is just fantastic.
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Fantastic as a kick in the teeth!
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Fear...fear...fear...





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