A hacker virtually tiptoeing around a Texas water plant, and a burned-out pump at an Illinois water treatment facility: both incidents, which happened last month, made headline news because cybersecurity breaches seemed to be behind them, though no one was harmed.
Initial reports said Russian hackers were behind the Illinois accident. While officials now say there is "no evidence" that this was the case the two events illustrate how worried people are that vital infrastructure is vulnerable to cybercrime.
Read the whole story at the New Scientist.
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