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Submission + - Hackin' At The Car Wash, (Yeah) (darkreading.com)

Submitted by PLAR on Friday February 20, 2015 @10:20AM

PLAR writes: Those LaserWash automatic car washes can be easily hacked via the Internet to get a free car wash or to manipulate the machines that clean the cars, a security researcher has found. Billy Rios says these car washes have web interfaces with weak/default passwords that if obtained, could allow an attacker to telent in and use an HTTP GET request to control the machines. And this very likely isn't the only car wash brand that's vulnerable, according to Rios.

Submission + - Forget Stuxnet: Banking Trojans Attacking Power Plants (darkreading.com)

Submitted by PLAR on Friday January 09, 2015 @11:21AM

PLAR writes: Everyone's worried about the next Stuxnet sabotaging the power grid, but a security researcher says there's been a spike in traditional banking Trojan attacks against plant floor networks. The malware poses as legitimate ICS/SCADA software updates from Siemens, GE and Advantech. Kyle Wilhoit, the researcher who discovered the attacks, says the attackers appear to be after credentials and other financial information, so it looks like pure cybercrime, not nation-state activity.

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