Bluebox Event Detection System – under the hood
In the past year I have seen a few press releases by WhiteWater Security (WWS) regarding their WaterWall product:
WaterWall™ is a revolutionary end-to-end water security management system, designed to give decision-makers and water security operators an unprecedented level of decision-making confidence in the event of a water crisis. From prevention and detection to intelligent response [...]
Tap water pollution in north China
More and more reports regarding the tap water pollution in north china are showing up. It is reported that thousands are sicking medical help.
Water supply to Chifeng’s new city centre, a 17-square km area with 58,000 people, was contaminated by an overflow of rainwater last week and test results showed an excessively high count of [...]
BackSense – contamination source detection software
BackSense is new methodology to identify the possible sources location and time frame of a contamination that may cause the trigger of a set of water quality sensors that are part of an Early Contamination Warning System (ECWS). The basic idea of BackSense it to identify all the networks nodes that can “reach” a specific [...]
Operation Atlas – Poisoning Tel-Aviv Residents
On 1941 the Arab Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini met with Adolf Hitler and discussed ways to ’solve the Jewish problem’. Three years later the Nazis and the Arabs of Palestine planned to poison the drinking water in Tel-Aviv with Arsenic poison.
Four years before the establishment of the State of Israel the Nazis and [...]
NYC water system map on stolen computer
According to the New York Sun “New York City’s water supply could be the target of contamination if a water system map made its way into the wrong hands…”
New York City’s water supply could be the target of contamination if a water system map made its way into the wrong hands, an environmentalist said.
The threat [...]
Water security at InfraGard 2005
InfraGard 2005 National Conference (hosted by the InfraGard National Members Alliance and the FBI) has a track called “Taking Aim at Our Nation’s Drinking Water”:
Track Overview
As security tightens around airports and other facilities, terrorists are acquiring targets that are easier to reach. These easier to reach targets are called “soft targets” because of their [...]
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An artificial tongue tells all about toxins
“With financial help from the Pentagon, Israeli scientists develop a means for identifying any kind of water contamination. The well-equipped Israeli defense establishment may receive a significant addition by the end of the year – an artificial tongue.
Teams of scientists at three of Israel’s universities – Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University – [...]
“Water systems’ security lapses”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Water utilities have installed computer-based remote controls “with little attention paid to security,” leaving valves, pumps and chemical mixers for water supplies vulnerable to cyber-attack, according to an Environmental Protection Agency report.
See full story at insecure.org
Book: “Water Supply Systems Security”
“Water Supply Systems Security” by Larry Mays (editor) is actually a collection of articles covering a wide area of the security issue. This book deals with vulnerability assessment, cyber threats, early warning systems, security hardware, reliability, remote monitoring and more. About half of the 18 chapters in the book were written by people from the [...]