America’s drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem

Nearly a third of US residents are served by drinking water systems with cybersecurity shortcomings, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General found in a recent study – and the agency lacks its own system to track potential attacks.  The EPA OIG released a report last week that found 308 of the 1,062 drinking water systems it tested were lacking in computer security. The analysis relied on a “passive assessment of cybersecurity vulnerabilities,”

Source: The Register

 


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