Trailrunner7 writes "In an e-mail call with Threatpost, a hacker who compromised system ms-dos used to manage water footing for South Houston, Texas, said the neighborhood had HMI (human machine interface) windows used to manage water and sewage footing nearby
idioms:close to the cyberspace and used a password that was just three rune long. The hacker, using the handle 'pr0f' took credit for a remote compromise of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. Communicating from an e-mail address tied to a Romanian domain, the hacker told Threatpost that he discovered the susceptible system using a scanner that looks for the online fingerprints of SCADA systems. 'This was barely a hack. A child who knows how the HMI that comes with Simatic works could have accomplished this,' he wrote in an e-mail."

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