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Proprietary Security Breach

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 11th of February 2021 10:08:40 AM Filed under
Security
    Turns out that Florida water treatment facility left the doors wide open for [attackers]

    The reality? The water treatment plant itself left off-the-shelf remote control software on these critical computers — and apparently never, ever bothered to change the password.

  • FBI Called In After [Intruder] Tries To Poison Tampa-Area City's Water With Lye

    It started with a cursor moving on its own, sliding across a computer screen at the water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Fla. Someone had taken remote control of a plant operator's machine – and in just a few minutes, they increased the level of sodium hydroxide in the city's drinking water by a factor of 100. After spiking the caustic substance to unsafe levels, the hacker immediately left the system.

    The plant operator quickly reset the sodium hydroxide level back to normal parameters before the rogue action posed a threat to the water supply, officials say. But the incident, which took place Friday, is now being investigated by local authorities as well as the FBI and Secret Service, according to Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri.

  • TeamViewer – the ultimate security problem?

    TeamViewer (now with automatic updates) generates a unique 10x digit per-device ID and also generates a password for every new session (but it is possible to also assign a fixed password (that is probably what was done in the water-treatment plant… probably with a bad too easy to guess password… because some employee wanted to remote admin that machine))

    There is also a portable version, that does not need installation and will not keep running in the background as a service, but for users that want to remote-administer their machines… that aint’ suitable, is it?

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What’s most interesting about the Florida water system hack?

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 11th of February 2021 02:34:04 PM.
  • What’s most interesting about the Florida water system hack? That we heard about it at all.

    Stories about computer security tend to go viral when they bridge the vast divide between geeks and luddites, and this week’s news about a hacker who tried to poison a Florida town’s water supply was understandably front-page material. But for security nerds who’ve been warning about this sort of thing for ages, the most surprising aspect of the incident seems to be that we learned about it at all.

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