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Title    “Disabling Cyberattacks” Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns
Date    Saturday March 23 2024, @12:42PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the weakest-link dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/03/21/203204

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/critical-us-water-systems-face-disabling-cyberattacks-white-house-warns/

The Biden administration on Tuesday warned the nation's governors that drinking water and wastewater utilities in their states are facing "disabling cyberattacks" by hostile foreign nations that are targeting mission-critical plant operations.

"Disabling cyberattacks are striking water and wastewater systems throughout the United States," Jake Sullivan, assistant to the president for National Security Affairs, and Michael S. Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, wrote in a letter. "These attacks have the potential to disrupt the critical lifeline of clean and safe drinking water, as well as impose significant costs on affected communities."

[...] The letter extended an invitation for secretaries of each state's governor to attend a meeting to discuss better securing the water sector's critical infrastructure. It also announced that the EPA is forming a Water Sector Cybersecurity Task Force to identify vulnerabilities in water systems. The virtual meeting will take place on Thursday.

"EPA and NSC take these threats very seriously and will continue to partner with state environmental, health, and homeland security leaders to address the pervasive and challenging risk of cyberattacks on water systems," Regan said in a separate statement.

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Original Submission

Links

  1. "Freeman" - https://soylentnews.org/~Freeman/
  2. "letter" - https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-03/epa-apnsa-letter-to-governors_03182024.pdf
  3. "separate statement" - https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-engages-states-safeguarding-water-sector-infrastructure
  4. "An Online Dump of Chinese Hacking Documents Offers a Rare Window Into Pervasive State Surveillance" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/02/29/0226227
  5. "US Says China's Volt Typhoon Is Readying Destructive Attacks" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/02/16/0136238
  6. "The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=23/12/06/0318224
  7. "Teens With "Digital Bazookas" Are Winning the Ransomware War, Researcher Laments" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=23/11/16/122239
  8. "How China Gets Free Intel on Tech Companies' Vulnerabilities" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=23/09/13/034240
  9. "Microsoft Links Russia's Military to Cyberattacks in Poland and Ukraine" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/11/13/1343217
  10. "U.S. Charges Four Russian Government Workers With Hacking Energy Sector" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=22/03/27/1529254
  11. "Microsoft Warns of Destructive Disk Wiper Targeting Ukraine" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/01/18/1611259
  12. "Breached Water Plant Employees Shared Same Password, No Firewall" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/02/11/215210
  13. "DOJ: Chinese Hackers Stole "Hundreds of Millions of Dollars" of Secrets" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/07/22/1336229
  14. "Chinese Digital Spying is Becoming More Aggressive, Researchers Say" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/03/26/0848224
  15. "Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/01/17/1444254
  16. "A New Hardware Implant Shows How Easy It May be to Hide Malicious Chips" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/10/13/1627232
  17. "Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/07/15/2249247
  18. "How a Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100 Million" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/08/26/1543200
  19. "U.S. State and Local Governments Receive Malware-Containing CDs Mailed from China" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/07/31/0613212
  20. "Ukrainian DNC Hack-Author has Turned Himself in and is Cooperating with FBI" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/08/16/221216
  21. "FIN7 'Cyber-Mafia' Group Giving Heartburn to the U.S. Restaurant Industry" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/05/28/200202
  22. "Interview with Cybersecurity Expert Jeffrey Carr about Crowdstrike's Russian Hacking Claims" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/04/17/025223
  23. "Hacker Rigged Elections in Nine Latin American Countries" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/03/08/0028219
  24. "Chinese Businessman Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Hack US Defense Contractors" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/03/26/1744232
  25. "China Hacks on US Continue, Facebook to Warn Users About Potential State-sponsored Attacks" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/10/19/2345235
  26. "CIA Officers Pulled from China Because of OPM Breach" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/10/02/1345219
  27. "North Korean Defector Warns that Hackers Could Kill" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/05/30/176208
  28. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=62359

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