A northern California city of 30,000 residents has taken its entire network offline after a cyberattack idled the 911 dispatch line, Breitbart reports, widening a run of intrusions that already reached small-town water utilities and pushed New York to fund upgrades.
The topic covers cyberattacks on water utilities in the United States, where drinking water is run by local operators, down to the level of small towns. Defending those systems falls to the utilities themselves and to state governments, which fund security upgrades. The Wall Street Journal ties the intrusions to conflicts abroad.
A northern California city of 30,000 residents disconnected its entire computer network after a cyberattack, idling the 911 line used to dispatch police and fire crews, Breitbart reports. The case adds to a run of attacks on small US municipal systems and utilities.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a cyberattack linked to a distant war hit the utilities of a small town in Minnesota, part of a wave of intrusions into US water systems. New York has awarded nine million dollars to strengthen water infrastructure after the nationwide attacks.