Someone got his WiFi password?
Paul1234
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Ah jesus, it looks like he fell for one of those emails that try to extort you. 
I got one of those to my gaa email address over Christmas. I felt for all the poor souls who wouldnt be as internet savvy and would have similar addresses.
Next level hacking
Fucking hell surely utilities shouldn’t be remotely accessible. If they are may as well hand the keys to skynet now.
They’ve (US / Israel) been able to hack nuclear reactors. Once its plugged in it can be hacked.
The Russians have built up a lot of expertise around hacking utilities. They crippled Ukraine by hacking their power grid and the same group were detected sniffing around US infrastructure.
This really ratchets it up a level. It will be very interesting to see the response.
So they hack through an electrical current, not even needing any sort of fibre optic cable or other connection?
(I’m obviously clueless about such things)
No, as in they hack the computer systems which control the various utilities. They are called SCADA systems. They should normally be completely segmented from the regular network, but mistakes happen and people get lazy.
You should read up about Stuxnet. One of the best ever hacks.
How does that happen though are they not air gapped, or whatever the correct term is, from a network?
Will read up on stuxnet, all other reading suggestions welcome
I think you should start an ISA 95 specific thread and we can educate a few on here
The Covid WFH era has presumably opened up a lot more avenues for this. Reading a bit more into it some fella noticed the cursor moving about on the screen. 
It’s hard to do. Updates still need to be run, systems need to communicate with other systems etc.
I think with stuxnet they managed to get infected USBs into the facility. Eventually someone plugged one into the one of the segmented systems to run an update.
If some lad had been a half hour deep into pornhub or Netflix instead of looking at the screen blowing bubbles it wouldn’t have been noticed for ages
Imagine you were balls deep in an INTERNET battle on the role of Prods in Irish nationalism. 
Ok, yeah I thought it would surely need a physical breach but if they are networked to some extent, which they would have to be to monitor, very hard prevent that. Not an area I have a clue of but fascinating
Millions dead and internet logs show the operator responsible involved in a day long back and forth about chippers in limerick