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He knows he brought these attacks with his war, but he doesn’t take the blame for anything.
Either he knows and doesn't want to take the blame, or he doesn't know. I'm not sure which one is worse.
They always point to a state actor to skirt liability for their own shitty IT work. Then the dim evil journalists swallow it whole, later regurgitating it for their eager little baby bird subscribers. If there were actual penalties for rawdogging a PLC (or any other control system) on the internet, shit like this wouldn’t happen.
> “I think Minnesota is behind it,” Mr. Trump said on Friday in response to a reporter’s question about Iran’s possible involvement, What a coward and a traitor to the American people.
He knows he brought these attacks with his war, but he doesn’t take the blame for anything.
I'm no Trump supporter and this war was a big mistake, but justifying a nation poisoning another's civilian water supply is a bit upside down.
> “I think Minnesota is behind it,” Mr. Trump said on Friday in response to a reporter’s question about Iran’s possible involvement, What a coward and a traitor to the American people.
It was probably the same (imaginary) people who damaged the lining of the Reflecting Pool. I think we should think about making blatant lies by politicians a crime.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are issuing this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to warn critical infrastructure asset owners and operators that malicious cyber actors (MCAs) are conducting cyber attacks targeting Operational Technology (OT) devices, including Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), specifically MicroLogix 1100 and…
Did they literally just leave the water supply plant management software out available on the open internet? Hard to even call this a hack!
Some of these municipal water plants in the US are independently operated by municipalities of awfully few people and even fewer resources to spare, often serving relatively vast areas…
It’s probably not how you or I would set things up—especially after many years of warnings and slick best practices guides-but I can sympathize with “if it’s not broken…”-style maintenance, especially at the local level.
These things have lifespans measured in decades, and budgetary cycles to match… and for all of CISA’s good work (on limited budgets, and with power that’s more persuasive than fearsome) [0], it seems hard to get all 148,000 [1] system operators to afford to care, much less to afford to fix things—much less to check their work.
[0] https://www.cisa.gov/topics/industrial-control-systems , and https://www.gao.gov/assets/d24106576.pdf for an idea of the staffing they’re doing it with…
[1] https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/information-about-public-water...
They always point to a state actor to skirt liability for their own shitty IT work. Then the dim evil journalists swallow it whole, later regurgitating it for their eager little baby bird subscribers. If there were actual penalties for rawdogging a PLC (or any other control system) on the internet, shit like this wouldn’t happen.
The Trump plan in Iran is not working. Gotta make them look like the evil bogeyman to get people to support further action.
They always point to a state actor to skirt liability for their own shitty IT work. Then the dim evil journalists swallow it whole, later regurgitating it for their eager little baby bird subscribers. If there were actual penalties for rawdogging a PLC (or any other control system) on the internet, shit like this wouldn’t happen.
The Trump plan in Iran is not working. Gotta make them look like the evil bogeyman to get people to support further action.
> “I blame it on Minnesota because they are grossly incompetent,” Trump said at a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, adding that Walz is “corrupt” and “Iran has bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.” Asked later if he could rule out Iranian responsibility, Trump said, “ I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.”
Is this the true reason for the cyclosporasis outbreaks?
[Riffing on the gag, not an actual misunderstanding, just to be clear.]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are issuing this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to warn critical infrastructure asset owners and operators that malicious cyber actors (MCAs) are conducting cyber attacks targeting Operational Technology (OT) devices, including Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), specifically MicroLogix 1100 and…
Did they literally just leave the water supply plant management software out available on the open internet? Hard to even call this a hack!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243560
https://web.archive.org/web/20240409155326/https://www.awwa....
(cybersecurity practitioner is a component of my professional persona)