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US News: WASHINGTON: Cyberattacks against water utilities across the country are becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency wa.

WASHINGTON -- Cyberattacks against water utilities across the country are becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency warned Monday as it issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nations drinking water.

The alert states that many water providers have failed to take basic steps to protect their systems from hackers.

Cyber leader and former NCSC boss Ciaran Martin talks to Computer Weekly about nation state attacks, why the UK has become so exercised about cyber espionage, and how our leaders are in danger of fundamentally misunderstanding their nation state adversaries.

Cyberattacks targeting water utilities and their infrastructure are growing more in frequency and intensity, the Biden administration warned Monday.

And utilities need to do more to stop them.

About 70% of utilities inspected by federal officials over the last year violated standards meant to prevent breaches or other intrusions, the EPA said.

Officials from the United States and United Kingdom have issued another formal warning about the perceived Chinese cyber threat to international stability and social norms, calling the issue an "epoch-defining challenge" even as Beijing continues to deny that anything at all is happening.

The Environmental Protection Agency warns that cyberattacks against water utilities around the United States are becoming more frequent and more severe. The agency has issued an alert urging water systems to take immediate action.

Chinese hackers have achieved a new level of effectiveness with their ability to penetrate even the most highly-secured defense systems of the US and the UK.