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A small army of volunteer security experts has spent the past few years helping rural water utilities with cybersecurity.
How has it gone? What have they learned? And what's next?
Read my (timely!) new story about @DefConFranklin:
Eric Geller
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Senior reporter at @CyberSecDive covering all things digital security. I also co-host @hothtakes. | Send me tips: ericjgeller.com/contact.html
- New: In a major expansion of its work, @DefConFranklin will pay cybersecurity firms to provide free monitoring and protection services to rural water utilities. I talked to organizer Jake Braun all about it at @defcon: cybersecuritydive.com/news/water-cyb…
- Regulatory gaps, funding shortages and industry consolidation have created a cybersecurity crisis in the healthcare sector, two @UCSanDiego cyber experts said at @defcon today. "This is a problem that is worsening." My story: cybersecuritydive.com/news/healthcar…
- Despite the Trump administration's aversion to AI safety regulation, the industry knows that the government is watching it carefully and won't let it "make a Terminator factory," a DHS cyber official said yesterday at Black Hat. My story: cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-securi…
- Cyber threat actors are becoming more willing to destroy rather than just extort or disrupt critical infrastructure, experts said at Black Hat today, a disturbing trend made worse by persistent security gaps in OT. My story: cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-…
