{"id":27992,"date":"2011-11-20T17:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T00:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=27992"},"modified":"2011-12-01T08:32:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T15:32:28","slug":"foreign-hackers-hit-public-water-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/foreign-hackers-hit-public-water-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign hackers hit public water system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cyber strike launched from outside the US has hit a public water system in Illinois, an expert on infrastructure control systems says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;This is arguably the first case where we have had a hack of critical infrastructure from outside the United States that caused damage,&#8221; a managing partner at Applied Control Solutions, Joseph Weiss, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;That is what is so big about this,&#8221; he continued. &#8221;They could have done anything because they had access to the master station.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/technology\/security\/foreign-hackers-hit-public-water-system-20111119-1noe5.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal authorities say they\u2019re investigating the report of a water pump failure in Illinois\u2019 capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security spokesman Peter Boogaard wouldn\u2019t comment on media reports that the failure was the result of hacking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/dhs-fbi-investigate-report-of-water-pump-failure-in-illinois-say-no-threat-to-public-safety\/2011\/11\/19\/gIQAuOV3bN_story.html\">Source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=19c32e24-3218-4b82-ad83-8bb758494a96\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cyber strike launched from outside the US has hit a public water system in Illinois, an expert on infrastructure control systems says. &#8221;This is arguably the first case where we have had a hack of critical infrastructure from outside the United States that caused damage,&#8221; a managing partner at Applied Control Solutions, Joseph Weiss, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[8947,2526,1071,1146,30,8948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28037,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27992\/revisions\/28037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}