Hackers Test Water Treatment Plant Vulnerabilities

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 to researching potential security lapses and vulnerabilities in software and control systems.One of Wilhoit’s research projects involved setting up water system honeypots —virtual water systems created through cloud software and designed to lure potential attackers into the open.The team established a dozen honeypots that appeared as water systems located in countries around the world, including the U.S., Ireland, Russia, Singapore,