Damage to German Factory Shows Danger of ICS Hacks
Found on eWEEK on Friday, 26 December 2014
The attack resulted in "massive damage" to the physical systems; a number of "system breakdowns resulted in an incident where a furnace could not be shut down in the regular way and the furnace was in an undefined condition," according to a translation of a report released by the German government.
TrapX's Wright argued that neither the compromise of the German manufacturing plant nor the breach of Sony were conducted by criminals with profit motives, but by more organized attackers with more complex motives, such as corporate espionage.
That's why critical systems have to be airgapped from any other network. Plus, something like a furnace could profit from some old fashioned technology, like a switch to turn it of manually.