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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
