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21st Century McCarthyesque scare story

At a conference last week discussing the upcoming “Internet of Things”, there was much discussion about the security concerns of connecting infrastructure to the web. SCADA systems have for a while been connected and this story of the hacking of a water pump to destruction was mentioned by a few people.

Turns out to be a 21st century McCarthyesque scare story, that said security is a real issue which needs to be designed in from the ground up in any future machine to machine network.

It was the broken water pump heard ’round the world.

Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Rus…

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