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 [...]
Optimal Layout of Early Warning Detection Stations for Water Distribution Systems Security
By Avi Ostfeld and Elad Salomons Abstract:Deliberate contamination is generally viewed as the most serious potential terrorist threat to water systems.Chemical or biological agents could spread throughout a distribution system and result in sickness or death among the people drinking the water.Since September 11,2001 the U.S.Environmental Protection Agencyג€™s water protection task force and regional offices [...]
