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SCADA Watch: Insider Charged With Hacking California Canal System
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:01:38 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via ComputerWorld. [snip] A former employee of a small California canal system has been charged with installing unauthorized software and damaging the computer used to divert water from the Sacramento River. Michael Keehn, 61, former electrical supervisor at the Tehama Colusa Canal Authority (TCAA) in Willows, Calif., faces 10 years in prison on charges that he "intentionally caused damage without authorization to a protected computer," according to Keehn's Nov. 15 indictment. He did this by installing unauthorized software on the TCAA's Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, the indictment states. Keehn accessed the system on or about Aug. 15, according to the indictment. He is set to appear in federal court on Dec. 4 to face charges of computer fraud. As an electrical supervisor with the authority, he was responsible for computer systems and is still listed as the contact for the organization's Web site. [snip] More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art icleId=9050098 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHT28Cq1pz9mNUZTMRAvMfAKDyXFKRDI1J5oVTJ28/OEbe2GnWXwCfYYjK XQtlJNLz0MJNvVDMJLJk3C8= =LvR6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- SCADA Watch: Insider Charged With Hacking California Canal System Paul Ferguson (Nov 29)
- Re: SCADA Watch: Insider Charged With Hacking California Canal System Brian Loe (Nov 30)
- Re: SCADA Watch: Insider Charged With Hacking California Canal System Kurt Grutzmacher (Nov 30)
- Re: SCADA Watch: Insider Charged With Hacking California Canal System Brian Loe (Nov 30)