NewsForge: The Online Newspaper of Record for Linux and Open Source Thursday September 04, 2003 - [ 09:09 AM GMT ]
Topic - Open Source

- by Chris Gulker -
North America's power grid, creaking under loads it was never designed to handle, may be facing an even grimmer future thanks to security flaws in aging control systems that are increasingly interconnected with Microsoft-based enterprise systems. The situation is so bad, experts say, that bored script kiddies could soon be knocking out power stations as easily as they concoct viruses from toolkits available on the Web.