America’s Hackable Backbone

August 24, 2007 | Source: Forbes

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software, or SCADA, used around the country to control infrastructure like nuclear power plants, water filtration and distribution, trains and subways, dams, manufacturing, and natural gas and oil pipelines, are increasingly connected to the Internet, leaving large parts of America’s critical infrastructure exposed to anyone with moderate information technology training and a laptop.