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.
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.
That sounds like the plot for an action-packed movie, but it actually occurred in October...
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