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Pwned with '4 lines of code': Researchers warn SCADA systems are still hopelessly insecure

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

"The "4 lines of code" attack, as described in the article, relies on physically hooking up a fake PLC to the targeted plant. I'd argue that if you have hostiles able to add a PLC to your plant undetected, then network security is not really your main problem."

Depends how they corporate network is set up. I might be as simple as plugging the device into any spare network port in the foyer. I'm sure some networks will be that poorly set up.

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