Hackers attempt to poison water supply in Florida- FYI

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

While you were distracted by the chronicles of the “Gorilla Glue Girl”, shade room shenanigans and the Super Bowl - hackers tried to start a biochemical attack on Florida’s water supply.



Hacker tried to contaminate Florida city's water supply, sheriff says
The attack occurred 20 miles from the site of the Super Bowl, two days before the game was to be played.

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/new...nate-florida-citys-water-supply-sheriff-says/

“Drink Lye and die” was the theme behind this.

A hacker gained remote access to a Florida city's water treatment plant in an attempt to contaminate the city's supply of water with a harmful chemical, authorities said Monday.

The unknown hacker breached the computer system at the Oldsmar water plant on Friday and briefly increased the amount of sodium hydroxide in the water supply from about 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a news conference.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Around 8 am on Friday morning, an employee of a water treatment plant in the 15,000-person city of Oldsmar, Florida, noticed that his mouse cursor was moving strangely on his computer screen, out of his control, as local police would later tell it. Initially, he wasn't concerned; the plant used the remote-access software TeamViewer to allow staff to share screens and troubleshoot IT issues, and his boss often connected to his computer to monitor the facility's systems.

But a few hours later, police say, the plant operator noticed his mouse moving out of his control again. This time there would be no illusion of benign monitoring from a supervisor or IT person. The cursor began clicking through the water treatment plant's controls. Within seconds, the intruder was attempting to change the water supply's levels of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye or caustic soda, moving the setting from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million. In low concentrations the corrosive chemical regulates the PH level of potable water. At high levels, it severely damages any human tissue it touches.

A Hacker Tried to Poison a Florida City's Water Supply | WIRED


According to city officials, the operator quickly spotted the intrusion and returned the sodium hydroxide to normal levels. Even if he hadn't, the poisoned water would have taken 24 to 36 hours to reach the city's population, and automated PH testing safeguards would have triggered an alarm and caught the change before anyone was harmed, they say.


But if the events described by local officials are confirmed—they have yet to be corroborated firsthand by external security auditors—they may well represent a rare publicly reported cyberintrusion aimed at actively sabotaging the systems that control a US city's critical infrastructure. "This is dangerous stuff," said Bob Gualtieri, the sheriff of Pinellas County, Florida, of which Oldsmar is a part, in a press conference Monday afternoon. "This is somebody that is trying, it appears on the surface, to do something bad."

In a follow-up call with WIRED, Gualtieri said that the hacker appears to have compromised the water treatment plant's TeamViewer software to gain remote access to the target computer, and that network logs confirm the operator's mouse takeover story. But the sheriff had little else to share about how the hacker accessed TeamViewer or gained initial access to the plant's IT network. He also provided no details as to how the intruder broke into the so-called operational technology network that controls physical equipment in industrial control systems and is typically segregated from the internet-connected IT network.

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Real comforting to know that anyone could hijack a city’s infrastructure through a remote, “remote control” in a 24 hour period without a trace

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Team Viewer is trash. Any business, and especially government, with access to sensitive data or infrastructure, should have onsite IT staff.

 

[Easy-E]

A hacker gained remote access to a Florida city's water treatment plant in an attempt to contaminate the city's supply of water with a harmful chemical, authorities said Monday.

And people want EVERYTHING available through the cloud and automated and "Smart"

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

And people want EVERYTHING available through the cloud and automated and "Smart"

Exactly - the fallbacks of technology. It can work against us. Like a design for destruction (not to get all conspiracy theory-ey heavy on you) but Just saying. City infrastructure tampering is nothing to take light.

Just like those Boeing 737 planes that kept dropping from the sky in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Based on “new flight technology and technical” enhancements. Watched a 20/20 Documentary on Hulu last night. The flight control literally took over the functionality of the plane from the pilots. 22 billion dollar planes. My dad used to fly helicopters so I watch a lot of “flight” and plane docs. Control technology don’t let it control you bc like in the OP; there’s always a glitch which is why we shouldn’t be totally dependent on robo-tech or remote technology.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Real Florida Water is when you put it in the microwave. If you know you know

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Team Viewer is trash. Any business, and especially government, with access to sensitive data or infrastructure, should have onsite IT staff.

That’s what I don’t understand - leaving the control of a county’s water system on one operator who just happened to be savvy enough to catch it. New Jersey state tech is archaic- most cities aren’t that vested in upgrading unless it becomes a: what’s the worst that could happen situation. The fact that everyone was distracted by smaller nonsense events and this was as life threatening mass event. Drinking water and a few moments later your insides are rotting from the inside out, blood gushing out your mouth- oh okay, now let’s pay attention.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Real Florida Water is when you put it in the microwave. If you know you know

Explain pls - I don’t know

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Explain pls - I don’t know

Back in the day in Jacksonville they used to use the term Florida water on the streets and it meant crack that was cooked in the microwave. I’m ashamed to know this

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

And people want EVERYTHING available through the cloud and automated and "Smart"

I don’t want anything that’s SMART design in my house, except for the TV which I can unplug. Not Leaving too much to risk and chance. I had a “smart” home protection device/monitoring in my old house and it was stupid asf. That system would false trigger at the slightest move and it was connected to “911” which means that if I wasn’t home and the system was activated; emergency services were showing up to my house for no reason. It got to the point where they wanted to fine me for each false call. Nope.

Rely on technology, they said.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Back in the day in Jacksonville they used to use the term Florida water on the streets and it meant crack that was cooked in the microwave. I’m ashamed to know this

Df??

I wasn’t expecting that- I thought you were about to say people putting water in the microwave as a heat source to sanitize it. Not cooked crack, crack rock.

 

[ORDER_66]

Real Florida Water is when you put it in the microwave. If you know you know

WHAT?!?!!?

 

[Cat piss martini]

crazy.

 

[MajesticLion]

WHAT?!?!!?

Duval County sh*t.

 

[ORDER_66]

Duval County sh*t.

Water in the microwave...