US pipeline industry under "major cyber attack"

[loverobots]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47310697/ns/technology_and_science-christian_science_monitor/

[stephengillie]

Will we soon see legislation restricting industrial control computers from having internet connectivity?

[EvilTerran → stephengillie]

I'm amazed it isn't already required.

That said, didn't Stuxnet attack isolated systems via social engineering and USB sticks?

[stephengillie → EvilTerran]

True, but sneakernet protocols are more difficult to navigate and hack than any NAT. Why leave that attack surface exposed?

[EvilTerran → stephengillie]

I agree completely. It was more an observation that keeping important systems isolated is at least enough of a thing for attackers to be already trying to work around it; if anything, I'd take that as a sign that critical infrastructure that's not isolated is dangerously behind the times.