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Florida water plant compromise came hours after worker visited malicious site

reader comments 31 with 26 posters participating, including story author Share this story An employee for the city of Oldsmar, Florida, visited a malicious website targeting water utilities just hours before someone broke into the computer system for the city’s water treatment plant and tried to poison drinking water, security firm Dragos said Tuesday. Ultimately,… Read More »

Computer intruder tried to poison Florida city’s drinking water with lye

reader comments 130 with 104 posters participating Share this story Someone broke into the computer system of a water treatment plant in Florida and tried to poison drinking water for a Florida municipality’s roughly 15,000 residents, officials said on Monday. The intrusion occurred on Friday evening, when an unknown person remotely accessed the computer interface… Read More »