Tag Archive for: Water

RSA: Verizon details data breaches from pirates to pwned water district

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In one case pirates – actual pirates – boarded cargo ships armed with a list of which shipping containers contained jewelry and went straight to them, stole the gems and left.

In another, attackers took control of the mainframe at a water district, mixed sewage with the drinking water, boosted the chlorine to dangerous levels and stole customer information.

These are two of 18 representative case studies in Verizon’s new Data Breach Digest, a compendium of anonymized customer investigations performed by the company’s Research, Investigations, Solutions and Knowledge (RISK) Team and released at RSA Conference 2016.

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Not cyber myths: Hacking oil rigs, water plants, industrial infrastructure

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If about 55 million people were to suddenly lose power and be plunged into darkness because malware attacked the smart grid, would you rank that as a large-scale cyberattack? It happened a decade ago, according to Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky Lab.
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You might be a terrorist if…you complain about your tap water

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Now you can add complaining about drinking water to the continuing saga of innocent behaviors and actions listed under ridiculous “you might be a terrorist if” lists. The FBI and DHS have issued thousands of warnings about attacks to contaminate drinking water and threats to water-related infrastructure. However, the latest potential domestic terrorist warning was not issued on paper to Mt.
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Undercover Researchers Expose Chinese Internet Water Army (Technology Review)

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Technology Review:
Undercover Researchers Expose Chinese Internet Water Army  —  An undercover team of computer scientists reveals the practices of people who are paid to post on websites  —  In China, paid posters are known as the Internet Water Army because they are ready and willing to ‘flood’ the internet for whoever is willing to pay.

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