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Water Pump Destruction Not Due To SCADA Hack

Posted by Unknown on from the anonymous-not-affliated-with-yippies dept.

knifeyspooney writes "According to the Springfield State Journal-Register, the city's recent public water system failure was not caused by malicious activity. One water district trustee spoke this gem: 'First, they tell us that it's the first instance of cyber hacking in the entire world, and everyone goes nuts. Now, all of a sudden, they tell us it's not.'"

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  1. Y'all missed a critical paragraph in TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "How can two government agencies be so at odds at what’s going on here? Did the fusion center screw up, or is the fusion center being thrown under the bus?” commented Joe Weiss, the security expert who discovered the initial Fusion Center report and reported on it. “There’s a lot of black and white stuff in that report. Either there is or there isn’t a Russian IP address in there. It’s hard to miss that."

  2. Re:First instance? by 7x7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wired still seems to think it was a hack, or at least something fishy is going on. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/scada-hack-report-wrong/

  3. Re:Help a /.er out by fotoguzzi · · Score: 4, Informative

    The book is called @Large.

    http://books.simonandschuster.com/At-Large/David-H-Freedman/9780684835587 Cuckoo's Egg might be the classic popular text from that era.

    http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/0743411463

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