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Timeline: How a Hacker Tried to Poison a City

SecureWorld News

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. was brief and not cause for concern due to supervisors regularly accessing the system remotely to monitor the system.".

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

CIO Business Intelligence

Thus, we insist on customers to upgrade, because if someone sitting in a faraway location is using our software but haven’t upgraded underlying operating systems of the locomotive, then it poses a security risk. When you reflect on your career, what’s a decision that you’ve taken during your tenure that you’re most proud of?

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

Below is an excerpt from my book Living Networks that describes how to develop effective strategies in what I call the “flow economy&# of information of ideas, where today almost all value resides. Formal processes, such as Verna Allee’s approaches and tools for mapping value networks, can be very useful.

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- Gray, not Green, Technology

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

More likely, we’ll eventually (despite the recent atrocious criteria issued by NTIA for the Broadband stimulus projects) get really high speed fiber networks, two-way HDTV, and true telework and video telepresence. It takes a lot of water and toxic chemicals to make electronic components. how many people actually do an upgrade?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems. Instead of just targeting zero days in the Windows operating system- which it did -- it then infected Siemens Step7 systems, causing the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart. So, what exactly is meant by Industrial Control Systems?

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