Lessons Learned from the Maroochy Water Breach

By Jill Slay, Michael Miller. Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2007

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Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering

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Networked control systems: a survey of trends and techniques (2020, background): “(2003) [17], Maroochy Shire Council’s sewage control system in Queensland, Australia (2000) [18], and Stuxnet worm which targeted many industrial control systems [19].”
Cyber Security of Water SCADA Systems—Part I: Analysis and Experimentation of Stealthy Deception Attacks (2013, background): “Targeted attacks to NCS are the most serious class of attacks because the attackers tailor their strategies toward damaging NCS components [5],[6].”
Attack Detection and Identification in Cyber-Physical Systems (2013, background): “As recently highlighted by the Maroochy water breach in March 2000 [1], multiple recent power blackouts in Brazil [2], the SQL Slammer worm attack on the Davis–Besse nuclear plant in January 2003 [3], the StuxNet computer worm in June 2010 [4], and by various industrial security incidents [5], cyber”
Attacks against process control systems: risk assessment, detection, and response (2011, background): “A classic computer-based targeted attack to SCADA systems is the attack on Maroochy Shire Council’s sewage control system in Queensland, Australia [9].”
Security of smart manufacturing systems (2018, background): “A well known insider attack happened in 2000 in which, an exemployee of Hunter Watertech, the water treatment control system supplier to Maroochy Shire Council of South East Queensland, too control of sewage equipment by masquerading as an authorised controller [54].”
Anomaly Detection in Cyber Physical Systems Using Recurrent Neural Networks (2017, background): “A few examples of cyber-attacks includes the 2016 cyber attack on a Ukraine power plant [9], the Stuxnet worm that targeted a nuclear power plant [5], and the insider threat on Australia’s Moochy Water services that occurred in 2000 [14].”
Cyber-Physical Systems Security—A Survey (2017, background): “In addition, for fast incident response and more convenience, some ﬁeld devices are directly connected to the Internet [89], [143].”
Control-Theoretic Methods for Cyberphysical Security: Geometric Principles for Optimal Cross-Layer Resilient Control Systems (2015, background): “In fact, security methods such as authentication, access control, and message integrity do not exploit the compatibility of the measurements and data with the underlying physical process and control architecture and are ineffective, for instance, against zero-day attacks [10] or insider attacks perf”
Design Techniques and Applications of Cyberphysical Systems: A Survey (2015, background): “in Australia, which caused thousands of liters of raw sewage to be released into local rivers and parks [275].”
A systems and control perspective of CPS security (2019, background): “Maroochy is also an outcome of the lack of detection and resilience mechanisms [25].”
Challenges for Securing Cyber Physical Systems (2009, background): “The most well-known computer security incident in control systems is the attack on Maroochy Shire Council’s sewage control system in Queensland, Australia, in 2000 [25].”
Cyber–Physical Systems: A Perspective at the Centennial (2012, background): “The case of an attack on a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system is described in [243].”
WADI: a water distribution testbed for research in the design of secure cyber physical systems (2017, background): “Automation makes the water distribution network vulnerable to cyber-physical attacks[7].”
Big data for cyber physical systems in industry 4.0: a survey (2019, methodology): “In the manufacturing process, there are many existing work using big data from di ﬀ erent devices and systems to improve quality and productivity (Slay and Miller 2007; Tang et al. 2010; Hunter et al. 2013; Kao et al. 2015).”
Cyber-physical systems security: Limitations, issues and future trends (2020, neutral): “A prime example of that is Australia’s Maroochy Water Breach in 2000 [141].”
Research Challenges for the Security of Control Systems (2008, neutral): “The most well-known computer security incident in SCADA systems is the attack on Maroochy Shire Council’s sewage control system in Queensland, Australia [28].”
Control: A perspective (2014, background): “There have been other less reported attacks of a natural gas pipeline system [582], a water system [198], a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system [605], trams [426] and power utilities [267].”