Now this is how it's supposed to be handled....

[Osiris]

Security experts discovered a hole in the software that controls our nations water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other utilities. The flaw could allow attackers to gain control of these critical systems but, not to worry, the people that discovered the problem handled it responsibly and reported it months ago so it could be fixed before they went public.

Experts with Boston-based Core Security Technologies, who discovered the deficiency and described it exclusively to The Associated Press before they issued a security advisory, said there's no evidence anyone else found or exploited the flaw. Citect Pty. Ltd., which makes the program called CitectSCADA, patched the hole last week, five months after Core Security first notified Citect of the problem.

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[superdave1984]

I agree. I have never understood why announcements of a security hole are made public, THEN they try to fix the hole.