Nevertheless, the intrusion put Washington on alert because it showed Iran was capable of hacking into infrastructure control systems.
"We never anticipated that our critical infrastructure control systems would be facing advanced levels of malware," Mr. Wellinghoff said.
And then there is Stuxnet, the recent attack on infrastructure control systems and probably aimed at Iran's nuclear programme.
He warned of the potential seriousness and long-term consequences of a debilitating infrastructure attack against control systems, water and power utilities, and financial institutions.
In the paper is discussed the practical use of the Graftec in design the communication infrastructure of distributed control systems based on PLC platforms.
These details alone could not guarantee attribution and Eric Cornelius, director of critical infrastructure and industrial control systems at Cylance, admitted the company could not say for sure these hackers were state-sponsored.
"Robots probably will fight robots," says Kott, "there's no question about it". There is also talk of swarms of smart drones, of next-generation kinetic weapons, and of course offensive cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, command and control systems, the very fabric of a nation-state.
They also supply wheels and electrical power infrastructure, cabin pressure control systems and LED lighting, radios, sensors, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and a bunch of other things.
We are destroying weapons, terror infrastructures, command and control systems, Hamas institutions, regime buildings, the houses of terrorists, and killing terrorists of various ranks of command… The campaign against Hamas will expand in the coming days, and the price the organization will pay will be very heavy".
Alessandro Pinto, Luca Carloni, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "A Communication Synthesis Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Networked Control Systems and Its Application to Building Automation and Control".
This paper presents terms and drivers which are relevant for the configuration of the infrastructure of autonomous logistic control systems.
