Why US power and water companies are vulnerable to cyber attacks
- Date: 14-Jun-2021
- Source: The National
- Sector:Technology
- Country:Middle East
Why US power and water companies are vulnerable to cyber attacks
When the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was hacked in 2018, it took a mere six hours. Early this year, an intruder lurked in hundreds of computers related to water systems across the US. In Portland, Oregon, burglars installed malicious computers onto a grid providing power to a chunk of the Northwest.
Two of those cases – L.A. and Portland – were tests. The water threat was real, discovered by cyber security firm Dragos.