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Get Permission Following the hacking of a Florida water treatment plant, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning the operators of other plants to be on the lookout for hackers who exploit remote access software and outdated operating systems - and to take risk mitigation steps. But the advice applies to other organizations as well, some security experts say. The investigation into the breach of the water treatment facility in Oldsmar, Florida, continues. Local officials say a hacker gained remote access to a system to increase the amount of lye in the city s water system, but the hack was immediately thwarted. The plant s employees reportedly used TeamViewer for remote access (see: ....
Like other small towns, Oldsmar likely faces budget restrictions, which puts it in the difficult position of balancing scarce resources. But the hack shows that despite the increased focus on industrial control system and SCADA security, a calamity could be a ghostly mouse click away. The city hasn t yet revealed more details, but Oldsmar s IT security problems have been laid bare in an advisory issued by the state of Massachusetts to its own water treatment plants, as reported by The Associated Press. And if you suspected that Oldsmar s IT security controls were substandard, then you were correct. The Massachusetts advisory says all of the computers at the Florida plant were network-connected to the supervisory control and data acquisition - aka SCADA - controls, and all were running 32-bit versions of Windows 7. Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 7 on Jan. 14, 2020, which means that the operating system will receive no more standard security updates. ....
Like other small towns, Oldsmar likely faces budget restrictions, which puts it in the difficult position of balancing scarce resources. But the hack shows that despite the increased focus on industrial control system and SCADA security, a calamity could be a ghostly mouse click away. The city hasn t yet revealed more details, but Oldsmar s IT security problems have been laid bare in an advisory issued by the state of Massachusetts to its own water treatment plants, as reported by The Associated Press. And if you suspected that Oldsmar s IT security controls were substandard, then you were correct. The Massachusetts advisory says all of the computers at the Florida plant were network-connected to the supervisory control and data acquisition - aka SCADA - controls, and all were running 32-bit versions of Windows 7. Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 7 on Jan. 14, 2020, which means that the operating system will receive no more standard security updates. ....
The water plant in Oldsmar, Fla. targeted by a hacker in a horrifying cyberattack last week is said to have exhibited very weak IT security practices. Recent updates from government authorities claim the facility did not have some basic network protections including a firewall. ....
Get Permission City Manager Al Braithwaite (left), Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri (center) and Mayor Eric Seidel of Oldsmar, Florida, say a hacker infiltrated the city s water treatment network and dangerously increased the level of lye. (Photo: YouTube) A hacker breached a Florida city s water treatment network on Friday, increasing the amount of lye that would have been added to the water to a dangerous level. But city officials in Oldsmar, Florida, say they were able to spot the intrusion and quickly reverse the setting before it took effect. Reuters reports that the intruder was able to access the water treatment network software after first gaining access to TeamViewer remote access and control software. ....