Remove 2016 Remove Architecture Remove Outage Remove Vulnerability
article thumbnail

Guest Post: Cybersecurity Incidents Lead to New Standards, Requirements

Security Industry Association

The two most significant recent incidents in the cybersecurity timeline were the Mirai botnet of 2016 and the SolarWinds breach of 2020. This led, over several days, to massive website outages that affected some of the internet’s most prominent sites, including Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, PayPal, Reddit and others. and parts of Europe.

article thumbnail

Process Controls, SCADA and Cyber Security

Plan B Consulting

Table 1: A list of important attacks between 1982-2016 (Yadav & Paul, 2021) You can see from Table 1 that there is a wide variety of different industries, processes attacked, countries affected, methodologies used for the attack. Managers or controllers may want remote access to the control room, but this can lead to vulnerabilities.

article thumbnail

Process Controls, SCADA and Cyber Security

Plan B Consulting

Table 1: A list of important attacks between 1982-2016 (Yadav & Paul, 2021). Access Vulnerabilities – Often, passwords are shared due to the installer changing it for additional users or manufacture default passwords are not changed. These links can be intercepted and are vulnerable to attack. Is ransomware a threat?