Saturday mornings are a great time to catch up on the news.  I regularly follow nearly 100 RSS feeds through my reader.  The number and content type change periodically as my personal and business interests evolve (or when I forget my Adderall).  When I came across this article I was surprised not about the content but more so about the fact that my computer security RSS feed stopped working.

I hate that when that happens.

Free Management Consulting Tip of the Day

Ask your tech guys if your remotes can infect the corporate systems using this sneaker net USB memory stick method.

I don’t know is an unacceptable answer.

Stuxnet spyware targets industrial facilities, via USB memory stick – CSMonitor.com

“We have not seen anything like this before aimed directly at the industrial control system environment,” says Walt Boyes, a control systems security expert and editor in chief of Control magazine. “It’s a clear-cut case of industrial espionage. We don’t know its ultimate aim yet.” But, he says, the attack is aimed specifically at the company that sells the lion’s share of industrial automation software to the electric power sector in North America and Western Europe. “That’s really scary,” Mr. Boyes adds.