Author: Elad Salomons

This post by Natalia Drault and T. Duncan Ellison is reprinted from ISO Focus+ magazine according to the reuse license. The authors are members of the ISO/TC 224.  I’m an expert member of ISO TC224/WG 09 which is writing the ISO standard for Water Event Detection system. Access to …

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During the blackhat europe 2013 convention, Kyle Wilhoit of Trend Micro  gave a talk about “Who’s Really Attacking Your ICS Devices?“.  Kyle has set up a test decoy web server which mimics the operation of control station for water pumps. According to …

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A Russian and Ukrainian version of EPANet is available at www.epanet.com.ua The entire user manual was also translated.  Download from here or here.

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During an ISO meeting one of the members said that toilets should be called “user interface”. This led to a somewhat funny discussion about toilets around the world. While talking about the heated toilets in Japan it was pointed that …

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Earlier this month there were reports that the city of Haifa (a northern city in Israel) water supply SCADA system was attacked by a group named the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The source of these reports was the Iranian Ahlul Bayt News Agency who …

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The review process over at the Water Resources Planning and Management (ASCE) is finally over and the Battle of the Water Networks II (BWN-II) summary paper is published. There are 50 (!) authors to this paper led by Dr Angela Marchi. Abstract: …

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Last year I posted about the Water Canary and since I have not heard any news about the project. Recently a short interview published with Sonaar Luthra who “explains his role in developing a device to prevent people from using water contaminated …

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Update 24/02/2014: there is new EPANET C# class here. Thanks to abcprogramlama (site in Turkish) I finally got the EPANet Toolkit working in C# (C-sharp). First the EpanetCSharpLibrary should be added to the solution (click to expend or download here): [code language=”csharp” collapse=”true”] using …

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Are your Fire Hydrant maps updated? Can Firefighters access them in real time? Read this report by wspa: Firefighters say a mistake on a map did not give them the information they needed to fight a fire over the weekend in Anderson …

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I have been watching the Water Canary project from the beginning of the year waiting for some news – nothing yet. I first saw the Ted video, which is just great: Searching for more information only got me the simple, PR style, …

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