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OLDSMAR — For more than two years the BMX Supercross track at the Oldsmar Sports Complex has stood vacant, a towering reminder that even the best-laid plans can go off track. Lingering structural defects with the packed-earth track forced officials to decide whether to abandon the $2.3 million facility or rebuild it. The Oldsmar City Council agreed last month it was more important to keep the track, unanimously approving a design-build agreement with Tarpon Springs-based J. Kokolakis Contracting for as much as nearly $3 million, news that was music to the ears of the dozens of members of...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources cautioned Wisconsin’s 611 municipal water systems Wednesday to take steps to secure their computerized control systems, including installing firewalls and using strong passwords.

Authorities are still searching for the suspect who breached the system at the Bruce T. Haddock Water Treatment Plant in Oldsmar on February 4 using a remote access program.

The intrusion also shows how redundancy and detection can minimize damage and reduce impact to the population.

Origin On Feb. 8, 2021, officials from Florida’s Pinellas County held a news conference in which they announced that “an unlawful intrusion into the city of Oldsmar computer system that [controls] its water treatment plant” had occurred a few days prior on Feb. 5. The intruder was allegedly able to initiate a hundredfold increase in the concentration of a chemical used to balance water pH at a water treatment facility in the gulf coast town of Oldsmar, Florida. As reported by Wired, the assertions “have yet to be corroborated firsthand by external security auditors,” but local law e...