So About That Iranian Cyberattack on Our Water Supply
You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. On July 30, the FBI, Environmental Protection Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint statement confirming that “malicious cyber actors” had successfully infiltrated municipal water facilities in at least seven states, a count that has since grown to a dozen, forcing many of them offline.
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You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. On July 30, the FBI, Environmental Protection Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint statement confirming that “malicious cyber actors” had successfully infiltrated municipal water facilities in at least seven states, a count that has since grown to a dozen, forcing many of them offline. The attacks were inconsequential in one sense—there were no reports of contaminated water, though some systems suffered pressure drops and issued precautionary boil-water advisories. James Wilson, co-host of the Srsly Risky Biz podcast, likened the attacks to an “endless amount of cyber mosquitoes,” as opposed to a “cyber Pearl Harbor.” But the coordinated attacks also underscored the vulnerability of the United States’ water facilities, prompting some obvious questions as to what the federal government has been doing, is presently doing, and perhaps should be doing.
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- You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. On July 30, the FBI, Environmental Protection Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint statement confirming that “malicious cyber actors” had successfully infiltrated municipal water facilities in at least seven states, a count that has since grown to a dozen, forcing many of them offline.
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