Hackers appear to be turning their attention to another industry that may be letting its guard down due a downturn in the economy. Can they really afford to do so, any more than they would cutback on the physical safety of oil rigs?
The high price of oil, and an increasingly software-reliant network of sensors and monitoring tools are making the oil trade a high target for hackers In a proof-of-concept attack, a security researcher and his team showed how they could empty an oil tank remotely exploiting weakness in common business software. Oil and gas companies should be extremely concerned about the threat of hackers targeting critical infrastructure as they attempt to steal commodities or cause explosions, a security expert has warned.
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