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What the French Supermarket Fridge Hack Teaches Us About OT Security
by Jesse Roberts on October 14, 2026 at 5:06 PM
When I first read about the French supermarket attack, my honest reaction was that it sounded like a movie plot. Hackers quietly take over the refrigeration systems of many grocery stores overnight, crank the temperatures up, and leave staff to find puddles under the freezers in the m …
Breaching a Water Treatment Facility: A Physical Security Test
by Patrick Laverty on August 12, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Most water utilities invest heavily in network penetration testing and web application security, and rightly so. Far fewer test whether someone can simply walk onto the property, badge their way past staff, or climb a fence after dark and reach the equipment that keeps water flowing t …
What the Minnesota Water Hack Reveals About OT Security Assessments
by Jesse Roberts on August 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM
On July 26 and 27, a coordinated cyberattack hit more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota. Our team is trained in running penetration tests against OT and ICS environments, and when we read the reporting on this one, nothing about it was surprising. That's the part that s …
Protecting SCADA Systems from Cyber-Attacks
by Felix Alcala on June 24, 2021 at 3:00 PM
Cyber Security SCADA Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is a control system architecture comprising computers, networked data communications and graphical user interfaces (GUI) for high-level process supervisory management, while also comprising other peripheral devices …
Breweries – Can they be Hacked?
by Jesse Roberts on January 15, 2020 at 2:27 PM
100 bottles of beer on the wall, 100 bottles of beer! Has anyone thought about what goes into making beer? I recently received my “Professional Craft Brewing” certification from Johnson & Wales. Throughout the program we went out and worked in commercial breweries.