Hacktivists do what Flint couldn't
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Hackers Modify Water Treatment Parameters by Accident
Bad network design exposes water treatment plant to hacking
A group of hackers, previously involved in various hacktivism campaigns, have accidentally made their way into an ICS/SCADA system installed at a water treatment facility and have altered crucial settings that controlled the amount of chemicals used to treat tap water.
Lots of
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@boomzilla There is a crucial question that wasn't answered though.
Did they find a neural network that writes poetry in there?
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Holy hell. The level of incompetence is astonishing. I'll just go ahead and assume som pointy haired dude forced the poor coders to connect the as400 to the Internet.
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where sea pirates hired a hacker
just stop reading that sentence there and imagine how awesome this could be.
Sea Pirates Hacked Shipping Company to Plan Attacks, Find Valuable Cargo
Sea pirates hire hacker to break into shipping company's CMS
not nearly as exciting as it could of being.
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@swayde Guess you have never been in the IT a of a big industrie. This level of incompetence is normal (at least in Europe) I've seen much worse. Like 10 ton 500kg lifting robots without security fence (because their movement is predictable and "safe") controlled by Ipad without any encryption and authentication. Anyone who knew the IP for the web interface (even 30-100m behind the perimeter fence) could easily swing this robot around and kill anyone nearby. Management reaction: Throw these evil hackers out of the facility, they hack our robots!!!!1111!!!!eleven!!
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@DieWaffel said in Hacktivists do what Flint couldn't:
Anyone who knew the IP for the web interface (even 30-100m behind the perimeter fence) could easily swing this robot around and kill anyone nearby.
Management reaction: Throw these evil hackers out of the facility, they hack our robots!!!!1111!!!!eleven!!
That won't be the reaction of the courts if the system kills or maims someone.
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@dkf said in Hacktivists do what Flint couldn't:
That won't be the reaction of the courts if the system kills or maims someone.
"I swear your honour, I didn't know. Of course I didn't believe the evil hackers,I mean, who would belive such fat suger addicts snigger"
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Staggering incompetence. Evidence they knew very well that shit was fucked and did little to nothing.
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