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Water utilities in Minnesota and several other states were attacked this week. The people who run those systems are often the same people running everything else in town. No budget or resources for security staff.
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2/ The device the attackers went after is common across water utilities, so one intrusion is repeatable almost anywhere. Civilian water systems also support nearly all U.S. military installations. A small town’s water isn’t only a small town’s problem.
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3/ Thousands of small utilities can’t defend nationally significant infrastructure on local budgets and part-time staff. That’s a federal problem. Who did it is the FBI’s call.
youtu.be/QGD_qAzDHk0
Aug 6, 2026 · 9:33 PM UTC
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4/ We made the same argument in print earlier this year: volunteer firefighters can’t replace a professional fire department.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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5/ For the last two years, our volunteers have been closing part of that gap in utilities across seven states. Multifactor authentication, default passwords, network maps. Almost none of those utilities had anything written down for an attack.
cybersecuritydive.com/news/w…
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6/ Most of the free security help on offer to them turned out to be unusable. An expensive box up front, or a consultant you have to hire to read the data. Free like a puppy.
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