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Originally Posted by Ret10Echo
Critical infrastructure hacks....
Should there be some determination (doubtful if it would be public) it is unsurprising. The systems are not designed to a level of resiliency expected of WAN and LAN deployments where there is considered to be some motivation for an attack.
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Update...funny... The headline is misleading...if it was "false" then it was NOT a cyber attack.... And "blamed"....really??
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U.S. contractor blamed for false cyberattack
Friday - 12/2/2011, 6:53am ET
By CARLA K. JOHNSON
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - Mystery solved. A reported cyberattack on a water district in central Illinois turned out to be a false alarm set off when an American contractor logged onto the system remotely while vacationing in Russia.
Jim Mimlitz of suburban St. Louis says he hopes he'll be able to laugh about it someday. For now, the contractor is puzzled. Why didn't terrorism investigators pick up the phone and call him? He says he could have straightened out the matter quickly.
Instead, investigators assumed someone had stolen Mimlitz' password and hacked into the system from Russia, causing a water pump to shut down five months later. A blogger spread word of the possible hack, touching off a minor panic
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