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Many water and energy systems vulnerable to significant cyber risk
2018-10-31 06:45

New Trend Micro research revealed how exposed human machine interface (HMI) systems in thousands of critical water and energy organizations around the world could be exploited, causing significant real-world impacts, such as contaminating the water supply. U.S. critical infrastructure dependency flow according to econometric analysis Exposed human machine interfaces HMIs are a key part of industrial IT systems that allow human operators to interact with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) environments. A large majority … More → The post Many water and energy systems vulnerable to significant cyber risk appeared first on Help Net Security.


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