http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/scada-hack-report-wrong/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com November 22, 2011 A report from an Illinois intelligence fusion center saying that a water utility was hacked cannot be substantiated, according to an announcement released Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security. Additionally, the department disputes assertions in the fusion center report that an infrastructure-control software vendor was hacked prior to the water utility intrusion in order to obtain user names and passwords to break into the utility company and destroy a water pump. The DHS notice, released late Tuesday, asserts that information released by the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center earlier this month about the water pump was based on raw and unconfirmed data, implying that it should never have been made public. But Joe Weiss, a control system expert who first reported the information from the fusion report, is skeptical of the new claim by the government that the report was all wrong. [...] _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Tue Nov 22 2011 - 23:33:22 PST
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