How the Biden administration plans to protect your water systems from hackers
CNN
The Biden administration will help deliver cyber defense technologies and threat intelligence to US water utilities to try to bolster security for a sector that is often short of cash and personnel to deal with hacking threats, officials announced Thursday.
The "100-day" plan to increase cybersecurity resources for some of America's 150,000 public water systems comes a year after a hacker breached a Florida water treatment facility and temporarily changed the plant's chemical setting to a potentially dangerous level.
The incident at the Tampa-area water did not cause any harm, but it spurred a heightened focus on the sector's vulnerabilities among federal officials and the water industry.
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