Posted on 02/08/2021 5:25:43 PM PST by bitt
Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, is the main ingredient in liquid drain cleaners and is used to control water acidity and remove metals from drinking water at treatment plants.
Police say an attempt to contaminate a Florida city's water supply with sodium hydroxide has failed despite a hacker gaining remote access to the local water treatment plant's computer system.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a news conference on Monday that a plant worker at the city of Oldsmar's water treatment facility first noticed unusual activity with its computer system at 8 a.m. on Friday, when a hacker briefly access the system.
At about 1:30 p.m., a hacker accessed the system again, taking control of the mouse and directING it to the software that controls water treatment. The hacker then briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million.
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Great
Now government wil deny it when they make errors, blaming it on remote hackers
But we are told not to believe that voting systems can be hacked and manipulated by hackers greatly more advanced and talented than this water system hacker.
“they” are testing, probing for our vulnerabilities....lucky for us, a competent human was watching the system and noticed the breach.
The larger question is why a utility has hardware controller systems on a network accessible by the internet.
I consider the offense of creating, ignoring, failing to detect the vulnerability and ultimately being negligent for public safety a felony offense.
Same severity as terrorism, imho.
Interesting as most SCADA systems are self contained without external connectivity.
He was just trying to help people brighten their teeth and get their laundry cleaner.
True. There is also the question of why the system would have even allowed a setting that was so grossly inappropriate.
Good thing it wasn’t Christmas or New Year’s eve.
Some results of the SolarWind hack??
Chinese get access to control our water suppoy too?
Florida tap water is crap anyway.
Does the place really house 11,100 gallons of the stuff to contaminate a million gallons of water?
Criminal disregard for public safety.
But like election fraud, who’s gonna prosecute?
Maddening.
Stupid. And boring.
Spiking with acid is way more entertaining and impossible to detect
“Interesting as most SCADA systems are self contained without external connectivity.”
Where did you get that idea?
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Uh huh. How do we know it wasn't the, "Competent human" who told a friend how to hack the system, so Mr. Competent could be the hero and get a fat raise?
This was stupid way to try to contaminate the a system. There are far more deadlier ways to poison a water system that would be undetectable until millions are infected. Our public water systems are extremely vulnerable to attack.
I work IT, and we have a water treatment facility. I can assure its air gapped.
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