Dustin Volz
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Hacks on U.S. water supply follow years of warnings and neglect (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON — In 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration proposed creating stronger cybersecurity guidelines to better safeguard the nation’s water supply from hackers. The steps were modest, but necessary, officials said at the time: Many municipalities lacked even basic protections, and the computers that monitor and adjust water quality, including chemical-treatment levels, were easy-to-find targets for a would-be intruder. The EPA rescinded the order, however,
Scope of hacks on U.S. water supply widens as evidence points to Iran (opens the original)
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The scope of cyberattacks on U.S. water systems has grown to include at least seven states and may be far wider, officials and experts warned, as authorities raced to safeguard the nation’s water supply against an assault that increasingly appeared to be the work of Iran. While there were no indications that any water supply had been altered or made unsafe to drink, state and local officials throughout the country were on high alert for potential problems in vulnerable computers that are commonl
U.S. sees Iran as likely behind cyberattack on Minnesota water systems (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON — Investigators believe a cyberattack this week on dozens of municipal water systems in Minnesota was probably the work of Iranian hackers, according to U.S. and state officials and others familiar with the matter, a potential act of aggression that comes at a precarious moment in the U.S. war against Iran. Officials cautioned that they had not definitively determined who was responsible for the attack and that the preliminary assessment could change as authorities collected more tech
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