US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame?

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is one of those things where we should be saying… “WHY THE HELL DOES OUR WATER INFRASTRUCTURE NEED TO BE ON THE INTERNET”

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Because it’s way, way cheaper to pay one guy to sit in a room monitoring 50 pump stations remotely, than it is to pay 150 guys to sit in random pump stations 24/7 when they don’t need human intervention for months on end.

    Why aren’t they properly air-gapped, and protected? Read the first five words again.

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  • runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wastewater treatment is a rather complex process these days, with sensors all along the process line reporting data back to the main office. At a minimum it requires a local area network.

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  • The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Porn?

    …definitely porn.

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    • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      OnlyDams.

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• LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The people to blame are the morons that hooked up utilities to the internet…

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  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s true, but the reasons they did it are not their fault.

    There’s a name for the thing that demands minimal spending on public services and national spending on private business, even at the expense of human life…

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Eh. No. I’d argue actual minimal spending should say that these services never learn what the internet is.

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