Nuclear power plants finally infected with malware

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Malware infects US power facilities through USB drives - security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, energy, industry verticals, Exploits / vulnerabilities, U.S. Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team - Security - Techworld

Two U.S. power companies reported infections of malware during the past three months, with the bad software apparently brought in through tainted USB drives[...]
In one case, the industrial control system at a power generation facility was infected with "common and sophisticated malware" apparently through an employee's USB drive[...]
In the second incident, a power company contacted ICS-CERT in early October to report a virus infection in a turbine control system.

Nuclear power plants in the US finally officially caught malware (at least now they detected it and wrote about it). If you think that a little bit of malware is not that much of a problem, check out this very interesting talk from the 28c3: 28c3: SCADA and PLC Vulnerabilities in Correctional Facilities - YouTube
It is about how malware spred by USB sticks (which is what they are talking about) can gain control over SCADA devices, which basically are the electromechanisal instruments that allow computers to control mechanical devices like pumps, valves, turbines and such.

Still not worried? There are theories that such a thing could be responsible for the repeated unexpected shutdown in power plants like this one:
Inspection team headed to Pa. nuclear plant

But of course, nuclear power is safe and all they have to do to make them safer again is the "cleaning of a USB device before each use" - LOL!

And they did not even start to consider it seems that people will do stupid stuff like hooking up their cellphones to a computer to browse facebook (and other sites that can be harmful) on their workstations because they are bored a la Homer Simpson...