Hacking Your Water

[Altani]

Another reason to store up water (if we didn't need a reason already.)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/chinese-hackers-attack-trend-micro-honeypots

 

[jimLE]

thats just one more area they'll hack...i've even heard that they can hack todays vehicales,and do what they very well please.from starting it up.turning on turn signals applying the brakes to makeing the vehicale go full speed.

 

[DrHenley]

The firewalls at work show every attempted hack in real time. They are under constant bombardment. The firewalls are in "Stealth mode" which means that they don't have any response to an attack, so the attacker has no way of determining if there is actually a server at that IP address or not. There is no DNS name (URL) associated with the IP addresses on the firewalls. So these are all undirected attacks on random IP addresses.

The more you know about it, the more you realize just how SCARY a place the Internet really is.

 

[Gazrok]

Of course, our own hackers are doing the very same thing to them. No good guys in this, we're always going to try and have these options, so not too surprising any potential enemy would do the same. Of course, good luck hacking my well.