Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack

[Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack, expert says by Ellen Nakashima] "Foreign hackers caused a pump at an Illinois water plant to fail last week, according to a preliminary state report. Experts said the cyber-attack, if confirmed, would be the first known to have damaged one of the systems that supply Americans with water, electricity and other essentials of modern life.

Companies and government agencies that rely on the Internet have for years been routine targets of hackers, but most incidents have resulted from attempts to steal information or interrupt the functioning of Web sites. The incident in Springfield, Ill., would mark a departure because it apparently caused physical destruction.

Federal officials confirmed that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were investigating damage to the water plant but cautioned against concluding that it was necessarily a cyber-attack before all the facts could be learned. “At this time there is no credible corroborated data that indicates a risk to critical infrastructure entities or a threat to public safety,” said DHS spokesman Peter Boogaard.

News of the incident became public after Joe Weiss, an industry security expert, obtained a report dated Nov. 10 and collected by an Illinois state intelligence center that monitors security threats. The original source of the information was unknown and impossible to immediately verify.

The report, which Weiss read to The Washington Post, describes how a series of minor glitches with a water pump gradually escalated to the point where the pump motor was being turned on and off frequently. It soon burned out, according to the report.

The report blamed the damage on the actions of somebody using a computer registered to an Internet address in Russia. “It is believed that hackers had acquired unauthorized access to the software company’s database” and used this information to penetrate the control system for the water pump..." Full text: Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack, expert says

Russia being Russia (Eze 38-39).

Response to comment [from an atheist]: "Russia was like this long before Nicky Lenin and his crowd showed up.

It ain't a Communist thing, it's a Russian thing. Russia has been engaging in espionage and sabotage against everybody who ain't Russian for a time measured in centuries, not decades.

What does this tell you about Russians...?"
 

They just do what they do (Rev. 20:8–15).

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The Scorpion and the Frog

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

Replies the scorpion: "It's my nature..." AesopFables

See:

Eze 38, 39; Re 20:8-15 McGee, MacArthur

Response to comment [from a Christian]: [Putin pic]

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Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack