As many people discovered from the postmortem of the Northeast Blackout of 2003, it was a widespread power outage that occurred throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, just after 4:10 pm EDT. Some power was restored by 11 pm; however, many […]
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Complexity – The Difference Between a Widget and a Thingy
I was discussing this with Bob and he pointed an interesting word use I had stumbled upon: Thingy. Bob pointed out that a thingy is what people call things they don’t understand. A widget is a thing that you do understand. Our SCADA systems used to be composed of widgets that we could work on. […]
Additional Thoughts on SANS blog
I should have included a diagram on the SANS blog to illustrate the concepts a bit better. I’ll work on one shortly. The main point behind the blog is that it takes time recognize an ongoing hack. The example I cited is actually quite optimistic. Many operators might not make the connections that a well […]