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OLDSMAR â For several decades, many Pinellas County communities have hosted a monthly Friday night street festival, starting with St. Peteâs First Friday celebrations in the 1990s and continuing today with similar events in Safety Harbor (Third Friday) and Tarpon Springs (First Friday). Now you can add Oldsmar to the list of municipalities blocking one Friday off the calendar each month as the Oldsmar City Council recently voted 5-0 in favor of waiving application fees for the Upper Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerceâs proposed Second Friday events, scheduled to take place on State Street from 6-10 p.m. on July 9, Aug. 13, Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Nov. 12, and Dec. 10. ....
OLDSMAR â The city of Oldsmar became world renowned for all the wrong reasons after the North Pinellas communityâs water treatment plant suffered a software breach over Super Bowl weekend. The Feb. 5 hack, which investigators said involved an unknown party accessing the facilityâs computer system and altering the chemical composition of the water supply, received international attention and shined a spotlight on the shortcomings of a critical component of the nationâs infrastructure system. Officials said the breach attempted to raise the level of sodium hydroxide, commonly known as lye, in the water supply to dangerous levels. It was spotted by a plant worker, who notified a supervisor who subsequently called the Pinellas County Sheriffâs Office, leading some to praise the alert employee. ....
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. ....