Top White House cyber aide says recent Iran hack on water system is call to tighten cybersecurity::Recent attacks on American water authorities by Iranian-aligned hackers — as well as a separate spate of ransomware attacks hitting the U.S. health care system — are calling federal officials to action.
No the call to increase cyber security on infrastructure was 15+ years ago when we started integrating it with Internet connected computers… They’ve ignored it and will continue to until there’s a serious terrorist attack or something. Then they’ll pass some security theater law that just hurts regular people somehow.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I can’t believe that water infrastructure wasn’t given the same treatment as our energy infrastructure in terms of doing a nationwide hardening of their networks back around 2018. As for healthcare networks, those companies should be held criminally liable for any patient that dies or is severely negatively impacted by unsophisticated cyber attacks. They have more than enough money to afford proper cybersecurity, so it’s criminally negligent not to.
Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Being this is a state sponsored attack, I was really expecting something meaningful like spoofing, identity exploits, or insider threats, but nope. It’s literally just a group of “hackers” typing in the default password of a device and gaining minor remote access.