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By   Brad D. Williams on May 06, 2021 at 2:31 PM Substation at Idaho National Laboratory WASHINGTON: The NSA is spotlighting the importance of conducting risk-based security reviews of operational technologies (OT) across critical infrastructure, including defense. “A significant shift in how [OT] are viewed, evaluated, and secured within the US is needed to prevent malicious cyber actors from executing successful, and potentially damaging, cyber effects,” the guidance says. OT include hardware and software that enable infrastructure physical components to function, such as circuit br...

The Only Surprising Thing About the Cyberattack on a Water Treatment Plant in Florida Was That It Doesn’t Happen More Often Slate 2/9/2021 Fred Kaplan © KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/Getty Images Water runs from a faucet of a water fountain. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/Getty Images The only surprise about last week’s hacking of a water-treatment plant in Florida is that this sort of thing doesn’t happen more often. The intrusion was all too easy. The hacker entered the plant’s control system through a commonly used tool called TeamViewer, which lets engineers monitor the network’s ...

The only surprise about last week’s hacking of a water treatment plant in Florida is that this sort of thing doesn’t happen more often. The intrusion was all too easy. The hacker entered the plant’s control system through a commonly used tool called TeamViewer, which lets engineers monitor the network’s machines—and adjust their settings—remotely. The hacker boosted the level of lye—an ingredient in drain cleaners—from 100 parts per million, its normal level, to 11,100 parts per million, which would have poisoned anyone drinking the water. Advertisement Hundreds of people in t...