FBI Issues Water Supply Cyberterror Warning

FBI Issues Water Supply Cyberterror Warning
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-01-30

Al-Qaida terrorists have scoured the Web for information on the computerized systems that control water distribution and treatment, NIPC warns.

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FBI Issues Water Supply Cyberterror Warning 2002-01-31
Robert Riggs (2 replies)

This is the WORST news about terrorism to hit, in my opinion, EVER. It means that the terrorists have learned, about the "Charlotte's Web" mathematical concept of modern civilization as it exists in the United States.

To date, no terrorist act has ever shown ANY evidence of attempting to leve...

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FBI Issues Water Supply Cyberterror Warning 2002-01-31
Fred Kendar

Let me guess, you are a y2k bug-hunter - and currently unemployed?

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FBI Issues Water Supply Cyberterror Warning 2002-01-31
Mr. Rational

People like you scare me, so I had to post something....

Let's dissect Mr Riggs' argument shall we?

" This is the WORST news about terrorism to hit, in my opinion, EVER."

Um, what about the 4 plane crashes, ~2,900 dead...

"To date, no terrorist act has ever shown ANY evidence of attemptin...

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FBI Issues Water Supply Cyberterror Warning 2002-01-31
Anonymous (1 replies)

Why wasn't this on State of the Union? Gee. Let me guess: It wouldn't be because this is a bunch of alarmist hooey, would it?

I write as one who designs SCADA systems for water utilities. This information the FBI has collected is basically Al Qaida's efforts at looking for vulnerabilities. ...

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FBI Issues Water Supply Cyberterror Warning 2002-02-01
Anonymous (1 replies)

I'm with this guy. The fear mongering by uninformed people who are misinterpreting that which they do not understand, is excessive....

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FBI Issues Water Supply Cyberterror Warning 2002-02-01
Anonymous

Let me post from the technical side. If the so called Al-Hackers are so smart then they sure are not showing it. Alot of information is being garnered from laptops and PC's left behind. To hack into a closed system is possible and I will not elaborate on how. Everything including your car which is b...

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FBI Issues Water Supply Cyberterror Warning 2002-02-01
Anonymous

It seems that the terrorists are taking a page out of some Security Companies' handbooks utilizing FUD to an extreme. Oh wait, it isn't the terrorists themselves spreading the FUD, its the Government. No wait, its not the Government, they are just reporting what they found, its the media.

Guys co...

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Propaganda to justify militarism and privacy attacks 2002-02-01
Anonymous

This is yet another misinformation delivered by U.S. government to people in order to justify the antiterrorist campaign. I have an impression that Bush administration simply starves for another round of Cold War, and the terrorists happened to be the only suitable target. Tomorrow FBI may spread a ...

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FBI Issues School Supply Cyberterror Warning 2002-02-01
John Gilmore <gnu (at) el-queso.toad (dot) com [email concealed]> (1 replies)

Members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network have sought

information on the Web about the networks and technologies that

U.S. schools use to exchange information about and among students,

according to a bulletin issued by the FBI's National Infrastructure

Prevention Center (NIPC) Redn...

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FBI Issues School Supply Cyberterror Warning 2002-02-01
Kevin Poulsen <klp (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]>

What you seem to be saying through the lost art of parody is that the al-Qaida members' interest in SCADA systems springs from their urgent desire to bring advanced water distribution and treatment technology to their downtrodden people. If you're right, then the real story is that we in the public ...

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FBI Issues Water Supply Cyberterror Warning 2002-02-03
Anonymous

IF...And if "When", this theory based on the internet

websites should happen; then and only then we will

know. Same play as 9/11/01 call. All we can do is take

the currect measures based on the information that

we receive. Same as everyday life. I believe we are in

for a long ride!...

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