Cyber criminals attack german nuke plant
RWE
BBC News reports that the German power company RWE says that hackers infected, the country’s highest output power plant’s office computers, USB devices, and a fuel rod modeling system. Fortunately, the Internet is unconnected to those areas prohibiting the virus from activating.
RWE said in a statement, “All sensitive plant areas are decoupled and designed with redundancy and protected against manipulation.”
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