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Timeline: How a Hacker Tried to Poison a City

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The chemical burns through clogs, but can also burn your eyes and skin. That's why it is so disturbing that a hacker tried to poison a Florida city by spiking the local water with massive amounts of this chemical. It's important to note that lye (chemical name sodium hydroxide) is often present at very low levels in water systems.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

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But to protect these systems, we need to understand these systems. So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. They are unto themselves their own things.

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