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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. 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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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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5 unintended consequences of the EV revolution

Vox

As with phone batteries, the chemical reactions that power the lithium-ion batteries in cars slow down in lower temperatures. That means they can often be fixed via over-the-air downloads , a process that’s usually simple as updating the operating system on your phone.

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- Gray, not Green, Technology

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

It takes a lot of water and toxic chemicals to make electronic components. Or, when Microsoft finally obsoletes that operating system (Windows 95, 2000, XP etc.), Most just buy a new computer, because the old one is too slow for the new operating system anyway. 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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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

Lonely Planet launched CitySync in January 2000, providing in-depth guides to four US cities plus Sydney for mobile devices running the PalmOS operating system. The software and content, including interactive maps, can be downloaded on the Internet or purchased on CD-ROM or preinstalled modules.