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China's Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies
- bell-cot 3y agoWouldn't it be lovely if...the US government was so high-functioning that it could actually be bothered to do something about this problem? Vs. these endless and so-similar servings of Warning du Jour. (Yeah...maybe they are, secretly. But it feels more likely that my using "US government" and "high-functioning" in the same sentence is merely a symptom of my fading mental facilities.)
- toomuchtodo 3y agoThe EPA tried wrt water systems and Republican states along with the industry sued them. So, good luck with your Swiss cheese industrial controls for critical potable water supplies. Fuck around and find out I guess. https://www.awwa.org/Portals/0/AWWA/Government/101323Insiders/Action-Memo-Rescinding-Cyber-Memo-October-2023.pdf https://www.awwa.org/Portals/0/AWWA/Government/101323Insider... https://www.epa.gov/waterresilience/epa-cybersecurity-water-sector https://www.epa.gov/waterresilience/epa-cybersecurity-water-... https://cyberscoop.com/epa-calls-off-cyber-regulations-for-water-sector/ https://cyberscoop.com/epa-calls-off-cyber-regulations-for-w...
- WhereIsTheTruth 3y agoThe US for sure do know how to attack, yet doesn't know how to defend itself? Sounds hard to believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet What's the _real_ motive of these announcements?