Hackers attack water treatment in Florida
Hackers have broken into a water treatment plant in Florida. They gained access to the internal ICS platform and changed the chemical values of the water. A comment from FireEye. "The incident illustrates the need for strong IT security in critical infrastructure areas," says Daniel Kapellmann Zafra, Manager of Analysis, Mandiant Threat Intelligence at FireEye, the market leader in intelligence-based security solutions. However, there was no danger to the population as the water manipulation was quickly recognized by the operator. Even if this had not been the case, there would be redundancies (manual quality controls / sampling / testing by registered professional engineers), ...