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| WSJ: Iranian hackers infiltrated computers of small dam in NY in 2013 |
| 2015-12-22 |
| [Ynet] Iranian hackers breached the control system of a dam near New York City in 2013, an infiltration that raised concerns about the security of the country's infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing former and current US officials. Two people familiar with the breach told the newspaper it occurred at the Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye, New York. The small structure about 20 miles from New York City is used for flood control. The hackers gained access to the dam through a cellular modem, the Journal said, citing an unclassified Department of Homeland Security summary of the incident that did not specify the type of infrastructure. The dam is a 20-foot-tall concrete slab across Blind Brook, about five miles from Long Island Sound. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Milady. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-12-22 14:53 |
| #5 And here is the link to the 2013 article I was thinking about, but it was Chinese hackers, then. Maybe they sold the hacker tech to the Mad Mullahs? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-12-22 11:39 |
| #4 Aaaand Skidmark, typing at the same time, said it much better. Thank you, sir. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-22 10:39 |
| #3 Bobby, here is the link to the Wall Street Journal article. The point is that cyber attacks on industrial control systems, already a matter of concern a few years ago, have increased significantly this year despite pleas from the government that utilities and industry disconnect their equipment from the internet. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-22 10:38 |
| #2 It speaks to the tremendous hammering of SCADA controlled infrastructures by nationalized or contract threat agents. Government controlled, privately operated, public water containment facilities generally use the same flow control system software, tweaked to container volume hydrology cycles. Isolated events such as this on minimally secure templated, flood control 'feeder' systems can have been used to identify opportunities for causing cascading load failures downstream, while operating within normal parameters. Northeast reservoirs are now full from heavy winter rains which typically would have been snow. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-12-22 10:34 |
| #1 Seems like I heard about this - or something similar - a couple of years ago. Maybe in 2013? So why would it be news again? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-12-22 08:20 |