Water Works Woes: The Oldsmar Cyber Attack and the Call for Resilient Infrastructure
The Oldsmar cyber-attack will stand as a reminder of the vulnerability of critical infrastructure systems, and the potential for widescale physical harm coming to communities via a threat vector traditionally Read More ...
Hackers Tap into Oldsmar Water Facility
Hackers Tap into Oldsmar Water FacilityBy Curtis Simpson, CISO This week’s attack on a Florida city’s (Oldsmar) water treatment system was not sophisticated, nor were the protection measures that prevented its potentially ...
Water Supply Poisoned by Hacker in Oldsmar, Fla.
A small municipal water supply was briefly tainted by a dangerous chemical: Another reminder of the risks of SCADA on the internet ...
CISA, FBI, EPA Offer Cybersecurity Guide for Water System Operators
After some stops and starts, U.S. federal agencies have issued guidance to help water and wastewater system operators better respond to cyberattacks, an important step as threat actors are increasingly targeting the ...
EPA Withdraws Cybersecurity Requirements for Water Systems
The Environmental Protection Agency in March ordered states to begin assessing the cybersecurity of their public water systems, a part of the Biden Administration’s multi-pronged effort to shore up the protections around ...
Critical Infrastructure Workers Better at Detecting Phishing
Fresh research showed critical infrastructure (CI) employees are more likely to recognize and report phishing and other malicious emails ...
Insider Indicted for Attempting to Sabotage California Water Plant
Earlier this month, Rambler Gallo pled not guilty to charges that he attempted to sabotage the water treatment facility in Discovery Bay, California. The facility provides treatment for the water and wastewater ...
Is Your SIEM Strategy Failing You? Here’s Why AI-Powered XDR Might Be The Answer
The term "Security Information and Event Management" or SIEM might appear to be just a buzzword, or software category but for organizations with more than 300 endpoints, it's an essential defense against ...
Killware: How to Protect Your City From This Growing Next-Generation Cybersecurity Threat
The term killware is an overarching term that covers a wide variety of cyberattack types that target the real-life health of victims. While other forms of malware are usually defined by their ...
Critical Infrastructure’s Open Source Problem
Open source has a security problem, and that could have real-world impact when it affects critical infrastructure. According to research from Synopsis, 78% of code in codebases is open source, and 81% ...
