Last year, a water plant in Texas disconnected its control system from the Internet after a hacker posted pictures of the facility's internal controls.

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In other international news, Xinhua and China Daily highlight calls by Chinese and US officials and experts for more cyber-security co-operation and less "blame or accusations without evidence" of state-sponsored hacker attacks, during the US-China Internet Industry Forum in Beijing.

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And since computers connected to the Internet via broadband connections are a tempting target for the occasional troublemaking hacker, the router comes with a built-in firewall to help keep them out.

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