Tag: Oldsmar

An official at the Oldsmar water treatment facility, outside Tampa, Florida, announced last month that the 2021 remote access cybersecurity breach was not a hack at all. The incident has now been described as a case of an employee inadvertently…

The Committee on Homeland Security met on Tuesday at a joint subcommittee meeting to consider industry-wide cyber security directives for the transportation sector. Representatives cautioned that as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) embarks upon this new approach, it must…

Increased focus and demand for OT cybersecurity are driving the need for continued and even greater cyber security training and talent. ICS engineers and system operators must be periodically taught to identify vulnerabilities in ICS environments, determine how attackers can…

U.S. security agencies revealed that preliminary information from the Oldsmar water plant hack suggests that the unidentified cyber actors likely accessed the water treatment system by exploiting cybersecurity weaknesses, including poor password security, and an outdated operating system. The hackers…