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FBI Downplays Water Supply 'Hack'

Posted November 23, 2011 10:15 AM

From BBC News - Technology:

The FBI says it can find no evidence that hackers burned out a water pump in Illinois, but a security expert questions their findings.

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phoenix911 Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 23647 Good Answers: 420	#1 Re: FBI Downplays Water Supply 'Hack' 11/23/2011 1:44 PM
	Link seems to be broken __________________ “ When people get what they want, they are often surprised when they get what they deserve " - James Wood
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artsmith Guru Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 3523 Good Answers: 146	#2 Re: FBI Downplays Water Supply 'Hack' 11/23/2011 6:03 PM
	Sounds like another case of rumours to me... __________________ incus opella
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CaptMoosie Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Red Hook, New York (Mid-Hudson River Valley) Posts: 4362 Good Answers: 179	#3 Re: FBI Downplays Water Supply 'Hack' 11/24/2011 8:04 AM
	It wouldn't surprise me in the least that a water supply system has been hacked. Many US water systems (and the national electric grid, etc. etc. etc.) operate their respective unit operations via SCADA, where the signals are transmitted over the Internet because it's more economical to do so. All to many SCADA systems are based on Siemens control equipment, which have been known to be easily hacked.....just ask the Iranians working with their Siemens control systems controlling the nuclear fuel centrifuges that were attacked by the Stuxnet virus. The only way around this security nightmare is to totally disassociate SCADA systems from the Net and use dedicated line-of-sight radio/microwave transmissions, direct signal lines, and/or direct signal fiber optics lines..... __________________ "Veni, Vidi, Vici"; hendiatris attributed to Gaius Julius Caesar, 47 B.C.
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