Hackers Test Water Treatment Plant Vulnerabilities

Hackers Test Water Treatment Plant Vulnerabilities
A potential strategy to improve security at plants includes virtual private networks, in which local networks are secured through encryption and only trusted parties have access to these network.

North American drinking water treatment plants are far from secure from hackers intent on breaching control system security, says Kyle Wilhoit, a senior threat researcher with security company Trend Micro.

About one quarter of the company’s 5,000 employees devote their efforts...

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