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Re: SCADA Watch: Hackers Penetrate Water System Computers
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:48:29 -0600 (CST)
Very cool. I love these twice a year examples of potential information warfare and information operations. This.. however.. is SO from the "duh-its-a-bot-department" D'oh! On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Fergie wrote:
Via ABC News' "The Blotter". [snip] A foreign hacker who penetrated security at a Harrisburg, Pa., water filtering plant is under investigation by the FBI for planting malicious software capable of affecting the plant's water treatment operations, ABC News has learned. The hacker tried to covertly use the computer system as its own distribution system for e-mails or pirated software, officials told ABC. "The concern was high because it is a computer that controls an important infrastructure system, and if, for some reason, it caused it to fail, it would have disrupted service," said Special Agent Jerri Williams of the FBI's Philadelphia field office. The Columbus Day weekend intrusion is the fourth recorded cyber-attack on a U.S. water supply in the past four years, according to the records of WaterISAC, an industry information sharing and analysis center with members from among more than 1,000 drinking water and wastewater systems in the United States. [snip] More: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/hackers_penetra.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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Current thread:
- SCADA Watch: Hackers Penetrate Water System Computers Fergie (Oct 30)
- Re: SCADA Watch: Hackers Penetrate Water System Computers Gadi Evron (Oct 30)
- Re: SCADA Watch: Hackers Penetrate Water System Computers Gary Warner (Oct 31)
- Re: SCADA Watch: Hackers Penetrate Water System Computers Gadi Evron (Oct 31)
- Re: SCADA Watch: Hackers Penetrate Water System Computers David Dagon (Oct 31)
- Re: SCADA Watch: Hackers Penetrate Water System Computers Gary Warner (Oct 31)
- Re: SCADA Watch: Hackers Penetrate Water System Computers Gadi Evron (Oct 30)