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August 9, 2018 05:23 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7n7r27EaIjA/warning-over-panic-hacks-on-cities
Warning Over 'Panic' Hacks on Cities
Security flaws have been found in major city infrastructure such as flood defences, radiation detection and traffic monitoring systems.A team of researchers found 17 vulnerabilities, eight of which it described as "critical." From a report: The researchers warned of so-called "panic attacks," where an attacker could manipulate emergency systems to create chaos in communities. The specific flaws uncovered by the team have been patched. "If someone, supervillain or not, were to abuse vulnerabilities like the ones we documented in smart city systems, the effects could range from inconvenient to catastrophic," wrote Daniel Crowley, from IBM's cyber research division, X-Force Red. "While no evidence exists that such attacks have taken place, we have found vulnerable systems in major cities in the US, Europe and elsewhere." The team plans to explain the vulnerabilities at Black Hat -- a cyber-security conference -- on Thursday.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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