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Honeypot for phony waterworks gets hammered on Internet

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Honeypot for phony waterworks gets hammered on Internet
An experiment in which a Trend Micro researcher set up two instances of an Internet-based simulation of an industrial-control system (ICS) for a nonexistent water-pump facility in rural Missouri found the simulated system was targeted 17 times over about four months in ways that would have been catastrophic if it had been a real waterworks operation. Read More


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