RE: Air gap comment

["Richard Snow" <rsnow () mountauburn org>]

Hah!

And what happens when you have a failing UPS in your system,
attached to the Hospital network? The default installation on the UPS
software
sends out Windows messaging notices - "warning - power going down in 5
minutes" to the entire facility. Operating room, emergency room plasma
screen... Generates a lot of support calls!

-----Original Message-----
From: firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com
[mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com] On Behalf Of Karl
Mueller
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:55 AM
To: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
Subject: [fw-wiz] Air gap comment
Importance: Low


Just a quick comment.. 

And I thought Paul was exaggerating about the mailroom guy being able to
ping the CT scanner:

"Cadenas said the VA operates under unusual security constraints with
regard to medical devices attached to its network. Information security
staff members, for example, have no authority to apply security patches
to the computers that control medical devices. Unpatched computers are
vulnerable to infections by malicious code - such as the recent Sasser
worm."

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0614/web-netscan-06-15-04.asp

Amazing.... 
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