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			<title>ICS-CERT has released and UPDATED &quot;ICSA-10-238-01A- Stuxnet Mitigations&quot; (pdf)</title>
			<arDate>August 26, 2010</arDate>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 174:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ICS-CERT has released &quot;ICSA-10-238-01- Stuxnet Mitigations&quot; to describe the mitigations available for Stuxnet malware.  This document provides guidance that asset owners and operators can use to reduce their risk of infection and/or identify and remove the Stuxnet malware.]]></description>
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			<title>Nation&apos;s Nuclear Power Plants Prepare for Cyber Attacks</title>
			<arDate>August 27, 2010</arDate>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The threat to digital systems at the country&apos;s nuclear power plants is considerable...]]></description>
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			<title>1-in-4 worms spread through infected USB devices</title>
			<arDate>August 26, 2010</arDate>
			<link>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9182119/1_in_4_worms_spread_through_infected_USB_devices</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Much of the malware in circulation has been designed to distribute through these devices]]></description>
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			<title>ICS-CERT has released &quot;ICSA-10-239-01- Dynamic Library Loading Vulnerability in Microsoft-based Applications&quot; (pdf)</title>
			<arDate>August 27, 2010</arDate>
			<link>http://www.us-cert.gov/control_systems/pdf/ICS-Alert-10-239-01 - Dynamic Library Loading Vulnerability in Microsoft-Based Applications.pdf</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ICS-CERT is aware of reports describing a method to load attacker-supplied DLLs in vulnerable Microsoft Windows applications]]></description>
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			<title>NASA: Study says massive solar storm could wipe out power grid</title>
			<arDate>August 21, 2010</arDate>
			<link>http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/21jan_severespaceweather/</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[NASA has previously warned in a study that a solar storm on the surface of the sun could hit earth in the coming years causing mass destruction of our power grids]]></description>
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			<title>Defense official discloses cyberattack</title>
			<arDate>August 24, 2010</arDate>
			<link>http://tinyurl.com/35m565o</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008]]></description>
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			<title>SCADA: A big challenge for information security professionals</title>
			<arDate>August 23, 2010</arDate>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting challenges of working as Chief Information Security Officer in a utility company is the variety of infrastructure types that supports the business process...]]></description>
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			<title>Pentagon takes aim at China cyber threat (pdf)</title>
			<arDate>August 19, 2010</arDate>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The U.S. for the first time is publicly warning about the Chinese military&apos;s use of civilian computer experts in clandestine cyber attacks aimed at American companies and government agencies]]></description>
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			<title>Roles and responsibilities key to making cybersecurity work</title>
			<arDate>August 19, 2010</arDate>
			<link>http://tinyurl.com/2ejgw8b</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Clarification of cybersecurity roles and responsibilities in the federal government remains the most crucial component of bills circulating in Congress, federal and industry executives said during a panel discussion on Thursday]]></description>
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			<title>Plant Security Deserves More Attention</title>
			<arDate>August 19, 2010</arDate>
			<link>http://tinyurl.com/2ew8m3l</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Some relatively recent CP surveys back up my impression about site security. In one poll a couple of years ago, nearly 40% of respondents rated the security of their sites as poor or very poor. And in a survey last year, almost 30% of respondents called the security of operator consoles in control rooms poor or very poor — and we all know the dangers that can pose]]></description>
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			<title>Cyber security – believe the hype?</title>
			<arDate>August 18, 2010</arDate>
			<link>http://tinyurl.com/35b3lcf</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A report from Pike Research released in June projects that cumulative investment in the security sector related to the smart grid will reach US$21bn between 2010 and 2015, with the annual spend hitting US$3.7bn by 2015, US$1.5bn of which will come from the US market. To a certain extent, the smart grid represents an opportunity as well as a threat for security conscious firms]]></description>
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			<title>7-character passwords soon to be hopelessly inadequate</title>
			<arDate>August 18, 2010</arDate>
			<link>http://tinyurl.com/35m2qpj</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The increasing processing power and the growing number of processors on graphic cards will soon make 7-character passwords &quot;hopelessly inadequate&quot; to withstand brute force attacks, say scientists from Georgia Tech Research Institute]]></description>
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			<title>GAO: Information logjam leaves U.S. more vulnerable to cyberattack</title>
			<arDate>August 18, 2010</arDate>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The public and private sector are not doing enough to share information that could help prevent a catastrophic cyberattack on the nation&apos;s critical infrastructure, according to a report by the General Accountability Office released on Monday]]></description>
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