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EPA and White House Raise Alarm on Water Cybersecurity

Iran and China fingered: Biden admin. chides governors: Water infra. lacks “even basic cybersecurity precautions.” ...

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How Cyber Safe is Your Drinking Water Supply?

BrianKrebs | June 21, 2021 | Andrew Hildick-Smith, Environmental Protection Agency, Kevin Collier, Michael Arceneaux, NBCNews, TeamViewer, The Coming Storm, Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, waterisac

Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of the 52,000 separate drinking water ...

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The Need for a Cybersecurity Protection Agency

Ian Thornton-Trump | April 15, 2021 | Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, cyberattack, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Security

There hasn’t been much good news in cybersecurity lately. In the first three months of 2021, organizations have been exposed by zero-days in Microsoft Exchange and Accellion’s secure file transfer appliance, and ...

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What’s most interesting about the Florida water system hack? That we heard about it at all.

BrianKrebs | February 10, 2021 | A Little Sunshine, Andrew Hildick-Smith, Applied Control Solutions, Bob Gualtieri, CERT Polska, Environmental Protection Agency, Florida water hack, Joe Weiss, Marcin Dudek, TeamViewer, Water ISAC

Stories about computer security tend to go viral when they bridge the vast divide between geeks and luddites, and this week's news about a hacker who tried to poison a Florida town's ...

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