AN AUTOMATED machine dispenses fish food once a day in a fish tank in a casino in Las Vegas. The chip controlling the system is hacked, and, once hackers are in, the dispenser provides access to the entire system operating in the casino. The widely circulated anecdote is used as a warning of the vulner-abilities of an increasingly digital-ised business world, including upstream oil and gas. "We don't want to be the casino with the fish food," says Duncan Greatwood, chief executive of cyber-security company Xage.
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