Thursday, 1. December 2011
Topic: SECURITY - on December 1, 2011 at 2:48:00 PM CET
Comedy of Errors Led to False ‘Water-Pump Hack’ Report
It was the broken water pump heard ’round the world.
Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Russian hackers had remotely destroyed a water pump at an Illinois utility. The report spawned dozens of sensational stories characterizing it as the first-ever reported destruction of U.S. infrastructure by a hacker. Some described it as America’s very own Stuxnet attack.
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