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Re:Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted... by open_bear on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @08:48AM (#13309068)
IIRC, uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran were infected by Stuxnet because someone brought an infected USB stick, found in the parking lot, into the facility.

Social engineering is the best way to infiltrate the airgapped infrastructure.

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Re:Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted... by throwaway7645 on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @06:37PM (#13314350)
I don't think you should be able to plugin a thumb drive to critical infrastructure. I don't disagree that this happened, but modern well designed systems shouldn't allow it.
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