Cyber attacks against industrial control systems on the rise, warns US official

Danny Palmer
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'I am very dismayed at the accessibility of some of these networks,' says Department of Homeland Security's Marty Edwards

There has been an increasing number of cyber attacks targeting industrial control networks over the past year simply because the fact that these systems are connected to the internet makes them mor...

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