Malware Infects US Power Facilities Through USB Drives 136
angry tapir writes "Two U.S. power companies have reported infections of malware during the past three months, with the bad software apparently brought in through tainted USB drives, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). The publication (PDF) did not name the malware discovered. The tainted USB drive came in contact with a 'handful of machines' at the power generation facility and investigators found sophisticated malware on two engineering workstations critical to the operation of the control environment, ICS-CERT said."
Re:Scan the security cameras... (Score:0, Informative)
The choice of OS made it vulnerable to the "malicious code" in the first place.
or... choosing windows based software, which is itself vulnerable to "malicious code"