Are you all familiar with the modern-day boogieman? The boogieman for computers that is. There are guys out there whose sole purpose is to wreak havoc on the computer of the unsuspecting soul who dares to open that email message or the unknown web page. Well, recently it was discovered that there were some guys who decided that their latest target would be the industrial automation arena. They created a destructive virus called Stuxnet. This virus was the first of it’s kind and it made its way into some PLC’s. In this lesson, we are going to discuss the virus and in a future lesson, we are going to discuss how to detect the virus in TIA Portal.
In the first lesson of this series, we discussed what was considered the first of its kind. A cyber weapon that’s purpose was to invade and stealthily command and hopefully destroy machinery that was controlled by a PLC control system. This weapon or virus appeared to have a specific target and a...
In the previous two lessons we discussed the Stuxnet virus and its purpose. As you may recall, this virus was believed to be the very first of its kind that was produced in order to cause physical damage to machinery via an industrial automation system. In this lesson, we are going to continue ou...
In the past few lessons we have been discussing the Stuxnet virus and its purpose. We demonstrated what the Stuxnet virus does and how it was able to create an environment that appeared normal to all observers. In this lesson, we talk about how the virus was able to construct the conditions for t...
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