Page 164 - Hacker News Today

Hackers remotely gain access to a Florida city's water treatment plant in an unsuccessful attempt to fill the water supply with a potentially harmful chemical, authorities say.

Hacker tries to dump chemical into Florida city's water

The hacker allegedly tried to change the sodium hydroxide in the water supply from about 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million.

A hacker accessed the computer system at a water treatment plant in Pinella, FL on Friday and tried to poison it, law enforcement authorities said.

Photo: Mathew Schwartz What if there was something more insidious than hackers stealing data and crashing computers? For example, what if the hacking forced victims to lose faith in the reliability and security of digital tools, thus driving them to use analog alternatives that result in a massive slowdown of essential social processes - such as the nations court system? Enter the SolarWinds supply chain attack, in which suspected Russian spies successfully planted a backdoor in widely used Ori...

Investigators said it wasn’t immediately clear where the attack came from, or whether the hacker was domestic or foreign. The FBI and Secret Service have joined the investigation.

The Polus map in Among Us is the third and most recent map available in the party game, but like any level, it didn’t always look the way it does now when it was first conceptualized. To give players a peek at the early stages of Polus, Among Us creators InnerSloth shared a sketch that showed [...]

Pinellas County detectives are investigating a computer software intrusion at Oldsmar's Water Treatment Plant.

Photo: Mathew Schwartz What if there was something more insidious than hackers stealing data and crashing computers? For example, what if the hacking forced victims to lose faith in the reliability and security of digital tools, thus driving them to use analog alternatives that result in a massive slowdown of essential social processes - such as the nations court system? Enter the SolarWinds supply chain attack, in which suspected Russian spies successfully planted a backdoor in widely used Ori...

  Fake Free SmartPhone Huawei Promo App Installs Malware to WhatsApp Users The expert from tech security firm ESET tweeted about the issue to warn his followers of the circulating "Android worm" with an attached video showing how the malware can land on your phone. The worm can get access to your device once you receive the malicious message and download what claims to be a promo Huawei app that gives you a chance of winning a free smartphone. The link will then lead you to a fake Google Play...