He noted that, “We are quite unprepared” for a major cyberattack on U.S. The reasons are complex but the bottom line is we are falling behind by $75 billion every year in terms of water infrastructure need. Riggs Eckelberry, founder and CEO of OriginClear, a water treatment equipment company, observed that, "Washington has displayed a dismaying lack of interest in our 150,000 water systems-perhaps because they are local and relatively unregulated. “But of all the country's critical infrastructure, water might be the most vulnerable to hackers: the hardest in which to guarantee everyone follows basic cybersecurity steps, and the easiest in which to cause major, real-world harm to large numbers of people.” ‘Starved For Funding’ The hacker had the username and password for a former employee's TeamViewer account, a popular program that lets users remotely control their computers, according to a private report compiled by the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center in February and seen by NBC News. In June 2021, NBC News reported that a hacker tried to poison a water treatment plant that served parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. The hack was quickly caught by a human operator at the facility, but the incident highlights a potential economy-wide problem as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed millions of workers to work from home.” Attempt To Poison Water Treatment Plant “The issue was brought into stark relief on February 5, when hackers gained access to a Florida water treatment facility by using a dormant remote access software and then tried to poison the water supply.
“This activity-which includes attempts to compromise system integrity via unauthorized access-threatens the ability of to provide clean, potable water to, and effectively manage the wastewater of, their communities.” Cyberattack On Florida Water Treatment FacilityĬNN reported last year that, “Cybersecurity experts have long warned that insecure remote work software is a major source of weakness for hacking. Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector facilities. It highlighted “ongoing malicious cyber activity-by both known and unknown actors-targeting the information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) networks, systems, and devices of U.S. Last October, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency issued a joint advisory with other security agencies.
Providing technical support to water systems.Improving information sharing and data analysis.Implementing pilot projects to demonstrate and accelerate adoption of incident monitoring.Establishing a task force of water sector leaders.According to the EPA, The Water and Wastewater Sector Action Plan focuses on promoting and supporting the water sector’s adoption of strategies for the early detection of cyber-threats and allow for the rapid sharing of cyber-threat data across the government in order to expedite analysis and action.
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