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Opinion: America’s small-town water systems are global cyber targets. Is your city next?
https://www.aol.com/opinion-america-small-town-water-181635548.html
Editor’s Note: Editor’s note: Robert M. Lee is CEO and co-founder of Dragos, a company that focuses on cybersecurity for operational technology environments. He also serves on the Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee as the vice chair of the DOE’s Grid Resilience for National Security Subcommittee, and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s subcommittees on Cyber Resilience for the Oil & Gas and Electricity communities. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.
A group called Cyber Army of Russia Reborn posted a video on their Telegram channel January 18 showing they had manipulated controls for water tanks at a Texas water authority, it was recently reported. Specifically, they turned on water pumps by remotely altering water level indicators and caused a water tank to overflow in the small town of Muleshoe. The town of Abernathy also reported a water system hack, and the towns of Lockney and Hale Center said hackers tried to breach their water infrastructure but did not succeed.