Is Your Treatment Plant Secure? These Student Hackers Don't Think So

A computer network security competition pits students against a miniature wastewater treatment plant in an effort to expose cybersecurity problems in the nation's infrastructure.
Is Your Treatment Plant Secure? These Student Hackers Don't Think So
A student cybersecurity competition put together by California State Polytechnic University-Pomona student Joe Needleman puts wastewater treatment plant security to the test. —Photos Contributed By Joe Needleman

Its computer network under relentless attack, the wastewater-treatment plant’s systems fail, and a tank begins to overflow. Workers scramble to compensate, and tension hangs in the air.

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