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10K Reasons to Worry About Critical Infrastructure

Wired

January 25, 2012

A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants, and found that many could be open to easy hack attacks, due to lax security practices.

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