ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Re: Computers and the Internet Computer worm targeting Siemens PLCs

If you install or maintain Siemens PLCs and related hardware, you might want to look at this, then check your programs for unwanted modifications:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9185419/Siemens_Stuxnet_worm_hit_industrial_systems

Read this off a link from the Drudge site: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e9d3a662-c740-11df-aeb1-00144feab49a.html

From the report it looked like Iran was the target?
A programming attack on an industrial control system could destroy a Nuke power plant or set off a chemical explsion as 2 examples. There are so many malicious things you can do if you could get control of industrial control systems.