So much for Homeland Security. From Russia, without love, hitting us where it really hurts. Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack, expert says Foreign hackers caused a pump at an Illinois water plant to fail last week, according to a preliminary state report. Experts said the cyber-attack, if confirmed, would [...]
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