DeepWater Horizon (BP oil spill) appears to be a control system cyber incident!
In his testimony Friday July 23, 2010 , Michael Williams, the chief electronics technician aboard the Transocean-owned Deepwater Horizon, said that the rig's safety alarm had been habitually switched to a bypass mode to avoid waking up the crew with middle-of-the-night warnings. Williams also said that five weeks before the April 20 explosion, he had been called to check a computer system that monitored and controlled drilling. The machine had been locking up for months, Williams said, producing what he and others on the crew called a "blue screen of death." "It would just turn blue. You'd have no data coming through," Williams said today, according to the New York Times' story. With the computer frozen, the driller would not have access to crucial data about what was going on in the well.... (vedi seguito)
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BP – a company name that’s on the minds of most Americans today and probably not in a good way. The crisis we face today with the major oil spill is catastrophic and a direct result of time and cost pressures brought about in response to our increasing demand for energy. BP is in the news today, but if demand growth for oil continues at this rate and supplies continue to dwindle, the oil spill we face today may seem small in comparison to future accidents. (vedi seguito)BP Oil Spill Wakes Up Country to Need for Stronger SCADA Controls
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