Who guards the guards ?

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

Security guard hacks nuke plant

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15947.html

By: Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 09/01/2001 at 22:01 GMT

A security patrolman is believed to have hacked his way into
computer networks at the Bradwell nuclear reactor in Essex near
London and to have altered and deleted information, the Guardian
Unlimited reported Tuesday. 

According to documents leaked to the press, the incident, which was
never voluntarily disclosed to the public by state-owned operator
BNFL, occurred in 1999 and resulted in a lockdown of the entire
plant to accommodate a security audit, the paper says. 

Security at the plant was extremely lax according to the report. An
un-named union official told the paper that "lunatics, industrial spies
or terrorists could have walked through the gates with a badge that
almost anyone could get." 

Thankfully, the incident has raised awareness throughout the
industry, and a new programme of vetting security personnel is
expected to be applied with some rigour in the very near future. 
What a relief. .

_______________________________________________
firewall-wizards mailing list
firewall-wizards () nfr com
http://www.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards