![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "It's really difficult to apply some kind of uniform cyber hygiene assessment, given the disparate size and capacity and technical capacity of all the water utilities," said Mike Keegan, an analyst at the National Rural Water Association, a trade group for the sector. Whether hacks on water plants have recently become more common or just more visible is impossible to tell, because there is no comprehensive federal or industry accounting of water treatment plants' security. In another previously unreported hack, the Camrosa Water District in Southern California was infected with ransomware last summer. In Pennsylvania, a state water warning system has reportedly alerted its members to two recent hacks at water plants in the state. But a number of facilities have been hacked in the past year, though most draw little attention. To date, a true catastrophe - where a hacker was able to poison a population's drinking water, causing mass sickness or even death - has not happened. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |