Monday, 21 November 2011

US utility sabotage blamed on Russian hackers

Russian hackers may have sabotaged a water pump in what’s being described as the first foreign cyber attack on US utility infrastructure, damaging both hardware and confidence in critical systems. The attack targeted a Springfield, Illinois water utility station on November 8,�Reuters�reports, using network credentials stolen from an industrial software developer; the pump was apparently [...]

Source: http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/Kv2XELUd_mM/

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