Sunday, 20. November 2011
Topic: SECURITY - on November 20, 2011 at 11:58:00 AM CET
Foreign hackers hit public water system
A cyber strike launched from outside the US has hit a public water system in Illinois, an expert on infrastructure control systems says.
''This is arguably the first case where we have had a hack of critical infrastructure from outside the United States that caused damage,'' a managing partner at Applied Control Solutions, Joseph Weiss, said.
''That is what is so big about this,'' he continued. ''They could have done anything because they had access to the master station.''
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