3rd December 2010, 1:27 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:I'm surprised security at this facility was so low. Taking it off the internet is meaningless if employees are allowed and capable of moving their own data from home to and from these work machines.
Their other mistakes include using a popular operating system instead of a custom constructed OS, and making the control systems run off of something writable instead of one-time writable memory (with built in safeties to prevent hardware from being pushed to the breaking point).
Future security is likely to change these things. Their nuclear plans have been derailed, possibly for years, but eventually they'll be back on track and now know exactly what to fix. On the up side, we know what to fix now too.
I agree about the jump drives. It was on my Security+ Test.. You should always disable removable media support in the bios in a high security environment.. This is basic knowledge! What a bunch of dumb asses.