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Why Are Water Treatment Plants Still Connected to the Internet?
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Dozens of water treatment plants in the U.S. have come under cyberattack since President Donald Trump started a war with Israel against Iran in February. Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are now a regular part of the modern world, but it raises the question: why is that infrastructure hooked up to the internet in the first place?
The problem lies with programmable logic controllers (PLCs), which control various functions at water treatment plants. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has…
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