Category Archives: Andrew Hildick-Smith

How Cyber Safe is Your Drinking Water Supply?

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Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of the 52,000 separate drinking water systems in the United States still haven’t inventoried some or any of their information technology systems — a basic first step in protecting networks from cyberattacks. Continue reading How Cyber Safe is Your Drinking Water Supply?→

What’s most interesting about the Florida water system hack? That we heard about it at all.

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Stories about computer security tend to go viral when they bridge the vast divide between geeks and luddites, and this week’s news about a hacker who tried to poison a Florida town’s water supply was understandably front-page material. But for security nerds who’ve been warning about this sort of thing for ages, the most surprising aspect of the incident seems to be that we learned about it at all. Continue reading What’s most interesting about the Florida water system hack? That we heard about it at all.→